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).

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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.

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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.