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Fri 10 Oct 2009Irish childhood tooth decay high
The level of tooth decay is higher among Irish children than those in Britain, the annual seminar of the Public Dental Surgeons Group in Wexford has heard.
Oral health researcher Dr Carmel Parnell said that more than one in five Irish eight-year-olds had experienced decay in their permanent teeth while half of 12-year-olds had tooth decay. That figure rose to 75 per cent for 15-year-olds.
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