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It's a whole load of things.
Dentists used to see children for this type of work because they had the support of their local NHS; which was once something I used to be part of.
That evaporated in 2013 with the Lansley reforms, austerity, and the NHS England drifting into being only concerned with acute care in hospitals.
Lots of schemes were developed in the 2000s to deal with this problem, Scotland, I think still runs one, and they could easily be revived.
But does need local leadership and partnership to make them work.
Suspect some dentists won't treat when they could and they know they won't be held to account. Dental contract doesn't help either.
Clearly, Streeting could have better advice on this but he's not been in contact with me yet.
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All that stuff I get, but it's largely been described as "supervised toothbrushing in schools", as if that's the headline policy. I saw a clip of Streeting on one of the morning TV couch shows talking about only this and not the wider reform of NHS dentistry.
From the article posted earlier:
If that's the cause, just fix that, surely? It can't just be me that thinks it's weird!