Dental Insurance News
Fed Up To The Back Teeth
Wednesday February 16, 2005
Short of bottomless spending, no state can guarantee all its citizens will grow up with perfect Hollywood smiles. But as Ross King, head of the Australian Dental Council, says, the least people should expect is a healthy mouth for life. The advent of fluoride in public water supplies and advances in modern dentistry mean no person growing up today need ever loose any teeth apart from milk teeth - something undreamt of even a generation ago.Dental Crisis Exposes Great Divide
Tuesday February 15, 2005
Public dental health in NSW is in a state of serious neglect, with some patients waiting eight years for attention and the number of children needing hospital treatment doubling over the past decade.