A group representing dentists has called for the establishment of at least 20 dental centres across the country to provide emergency treatment during the Covid-19 outbreak.

The group, which represents 2,000 of the country's dentists, says some are seeing incomes fall by at least 90%.

Children in Cork are bearing the brunt of a new public dental policy imposed due to “staffing and resource” issues, it has been claimed.

Dentists fear young children will be left “with the worst of both worlds” under the Government's plan to allow free dental care for under-sixes.

Publishing details of every nurse sanctioned by their regulatory body could lead some to take their own lives or consider doing so, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

Responding to client demand, more and more dental clinics are adding Botox and fillers to their list of offerings, writes Helen O’Callaghan

If you want to give yourself a new-year health kick improve your oral hygiene

A free dental scheme that limits the number of fillings a patient can have, but not the number of teeth that can be removed, is driving up the rate of surgical extractions, dentists have claimed.

More than 2.5m PRSI contributors are now entitled to a range of subsidised dental treatments and optical services.

Dentists are calling for the expected €40m proceeds of the new sugar tax to be invested in public dental services.

The Irish Dental Association is joining forces with a number of charities to provide free screening for the disease.

It is being claimed the Public Dental Service for primary school children is on the verge of collapse.

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

Do-it-yourself dentistry is on the rise, and so are the complaints from dissatisfied people who bought braces, veneers, and tooth-whitening kits online.

The Irish Dental Association (IDA) has written to the Taoiseach urging a cross-departmental response “to the oral health crisis” at a time when upwards of 10,000 children are waiting more than a year for orthodontic treatment.

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.

Dispute over contracts could scupper plan to restore benefits and expand them to self-employed.

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

A former Irish Olympic boxer discovered he had mouth cancer during a regular visit to his dentist.

“The HSE has effectively overseen the introduction of dental apartheid for the 37% of the population who have a medical card,” said Fintan Hourihan, chief executive of the Irish Dental Association.

Dentists want to play a key role in signalling serious medical conditions in patients.

The Irish Dental Association has moved to assure the public that dentists are disposing of mercury safely although it says it doesn’t have statistics on compliance rates.

An appeal by dentists over changes to the HSE funding of dental treatment for medical card holders which essentially confined that funding to emergency treatments has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.

The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill is a crucial response to one of our most significant public health problems. Alcohol misuse claims three lives every day in Ireland and we all know someone who has been affected in a harmful way by alcohol use — it is all too common.

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There is no absolute evidence that adding fluoride to drinking water has a negative effect on health.

Athletes and fitness fans are risking significant tooth decay by drinking sports drinks and protein shakes.

The Government’s decision to provide universal health care for all children should include dental treatment for under-sixes, a report urges.

Authorities are taking a big health risk if they remove fluoride from the public water system, a top dentist has warned.

Authorities are taking a big risk with children’s health if they introduce fluoride-free water, one of the country’s most senior dentists has claimed.

The sudden closure of a HSE-run dental clinic that treated thousands of children needing multiple extractions has exposed them to greater risk, says the Irish Dental Association.

Dentists have described the closure of a dental clinic at St James' Hospital, without putting alternatives in place, as a disgrace.

I wish to respond to some of the comments and misrepresentations made by Professor June Nunn, Prof Martin Kinirons, Dr John Walsh and Dr Peter Gannon, President of the Irish Dental Association, in their letter published in the Irish Examiner (Oct 1).

Ireland’s water has been fluoridated for 50 years. That’s time enough for improvements in oral health and to show there have been no documented medical side effects.