Dental health crisis: Children forced to wait years for treatment

Whether or not the new national oral health policy is the way forward, our school dental programme is in dire need of an overhaul, with huge pressure on services and children forced to wait years before getting the treatment they need, writes Catherine Shanahan

For the first time in 25 years, we have a new national oral health policy, Smile agus Sláinte.

The Government says it will provide the groundwork to transform oral health services over the next eight years.