Oral health in ‘crisis’

TEETH were pulled from the mouths of around 170 young people a day last year, with sugar blamed for creating an “oral health crisis”.

New NHS spending data shows there were 42,911 hospital procedures to remove teeth from patients aged 18 and under in 2016-17, at a cost of more than £36 million. It marks a jump of almost a fifth in the number of extractions performed over the past four years.