Irish Dental Association

Parents who trot their children in and out of their local dentist’s surgery once or twice a year and pay for the privilege, might be forgiven for forg(...)

A new national oral health policy has set out the future of dental care in Ireland. It promises free treatment for all children up to the age of 16, b(...)

Ireland is losing dentists it has trained to other countries through a lack of dental specialist training here, the Royal College of Surgeons in Irela(...)

The Government’s new oral health policy for children and adults is seriously flawed, economically unviable and operationally unworkable, dentists have(...)

An audit into the medical files of more than 7,500 children who may have “suffered damage” from orthodontic services they received is expected to be c(...)

Providing free dental care for adult medical-card holders and all children as proposed under the Department of Health’s new oral health policy would c(...)

Tens of thousands of children are languishing on dental waiting lists, many “suffering through pain and infections”, Fianna Fáil’s health spokesman St(...)

There has been a stark rise in the number of tooth extractions over the past decade due to the structure of the medical card scheme, the Irish Dental (...)

One pharmacy in Dublin received more than €1.3 million in fees for dispensing drugs and medicines under various State community schemes last year. Ne(...)

Ireland’s growing fondness for Italian fizz could be leading to more fillings, dentists have warned. Prosecco, because it is acidic and sweet, may be(...)