Dental expert calls for 'use it or lose it' voucher to cover first dental visit for kids

All children should visit the dentist by their first birthday according to one of Ireland’s leading dental experts,
Dr Eleanor McGovern, a consultant paediatric dental surgeon in Temple Street University Children’s Hospital, has called on the Government to introduce a “use-it- or-lose-it voucher”, whereby parents redeem it before their child’s first birthday.