The Portsmouth LINk Steering Group has decided that a project to investigate the health of childrens’ teeth in the City of Portsmouth has high merit.
At the time of writing this Blog Article 11 members of the 14 strong Steering Group thought that a project was worthwhile.
As a background, Portsmouth has some of the worst oral health nationally and the city’s children have some of the highest number of decayed and missing teeth. An index measuring oral health in terms of the average number of decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMFT) produces a national average in England of 1.45. The index for Portsmouth is 1.78.
At the Health Overview and Scrutiny Panel meeting of the 13 Sep 2011 the committee recommended a 2 year breathing space before the issue of fluoridation of water supplies is once again debated. Therefore the LINk will try to discover through a commissioned research programme, what is currently undertaken by way of education concerning the care of childrens' teeth in the City.
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