Seven out of ten
Seven out of ten children in England saw an NHS dentist in the 24 month period to June 2013 – a proportion that has remained relatively unchanged since 2006 according to new figures.
HSCIC is the source of these figures:
In the 24 month period to June 2013, 7.8 million children in England (69.1 per cent of the child population aged under 18) were seen by an NHS dentist according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
While the actual number of children seeing a dentist has increased by 0.5 per cent (by 41,000) since 2006-07 when this report series began, the proportion of the child population seen has remained fairly consistent at around the 70 per cent mark.
The numbers of adult patients seen were 20.3 million in 2006-07 and 21.9 million in 2012-13 which is an increase of 7.8 per cent. Despite this increase, the proportion of the adult population seen has also remained fairly consistent around the 52 per cent mark, and was 52.5 per cent for the 24 month period to June 2013.
Key findings in today’s NHS Dental Statistics report show that in 2012-132:
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