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The number of children who need to have decayed teeth removed because of high sugar diets is "frightening", a leading expert has warned.
The first thing we need to do is prevent dental caries in young children to stop them having to have extractions, as the most common reason why children have a general anaesthetic is to have decayed teeth extracted," he said.
Children with one or more teeth scored as 'decayed' or 'filled with additional decay' were considered to have decayed teeth.
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The dental health of children was also highlighted on Friday night by an analysis from the Press Association which showed that thousands of young children have had decayed teeth removed in England's hospitals over the last four years.
Sixty percent of children had decayed teeth (n = 158).
Only 1% of 5-6-year-olds had had decayed teeth filled.
Females have a higher risk (OR: 1.37) for having decayed teeth.
Urban subjects have a significantly lower risk for having decayed teeth compared to rural subjects.
Parents reported more toothache when children had decayed teeth (caries) than when they did not.
There were no significant differences between the three groups in the number of adolescents who had experienced decayed teeth as compared with those currently having decayed teeth (table 3).
With respect to province, subjects living in HCM have less risk for having decayed teeth than subjects living in the other provinces.
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