Children and adults requiring special care dentistry whose needs have not been met in the past will be among those to benefit when Cork University Dental School and Hospital opens its doors in 2023.

Fianna Fáil have claimed that more than 1,000 children have been waiting for more than four years for orthodontic treatment.

Thousands of children are waiting as long as 12 years for their first dental screening, it has emerged.

All children should visit the dentist by their first birthday according to one of Ireland’s leading dental experts.

You’re the odd one out if you don’t have American film-star teeth; big, white and straight like the newly painted lines of a zebra crossing, writes Clodagh Finn.

Some 16,000 children missed their school dental screening last year, because of staff shortages and public clinic closures.

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Up to 10,000 children under the age of 15 are ending up in hospital every year to have teeth removed in what dentists claim is a direct result of cuts to free dental care.

The Irish Medical Organisation is being urged to take a stand against the practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water.

Children with special needs are still waiting up to three years for dental procedures to be carried out, according to the HSE’s top expert on oral health.