Australia fails the oral health test
The Australian Dental Association (ADA) has released it first national oral health check and, unfortunately, we failed.
Australia's Oral Health Tracker revealed that more than 90 per cent of adults have, or have experienced, decay in their permanent teeth.
Also, only half of all adults brush their teeth as recommended (twice a day) and smoking and alcohol consumption is a major contributor to our oral health woes.
Perhaps more alarming is the rate of tooth decay among Aussie children, with one-third having decay in their baby teeth. Three in four consume too much sugar.
"The evidence shows that one-third of Australia's five to six year-olds have had decay in their baby teeth," said Federal President of the Australian Dental Association, Dr Hugo Sachs.
"This is an unacceptably high rate and puts these children at risk of poor oral health in their development and adult years."
The report also revealed that, in 2015-16, there were 67,266 preventable hospitalisations for oral health problems. Around one-third of these cases involved children under the age of nine years. One in ten cases were preventable admissions due to dental conditions.
"With poor oral health linked to a range of diseases in adulthood it's critical governments work to ensure healthy oral health habits among the young," said Dr Sachs.
Read more at www.ada.org.au
Just saying that if you can use get those denta brushes between your teeth Reagan/Micha, then you obviously have large gaps
Braces will fix that
If you consider that attacking in stead of sound advice, that's your problem
Micha1 min ago
Why are you attacking me Raphel???
Surprised you can even "speak"without any teeth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8OhMlui1o8
The brushes come in different sizes Raphel
obviously if you have false teeth as you probably have, you can't use them. No space between the teeth.
Very lucky am I, have all my own teeth and hope to hang on to them. Big mistake parents letting kids use electric toothbrushes, they never learn to clean their teeth properly with those things. Look after ya teeth or they'll leave home
Thought the norm in humans was that children start losing “baby” teeth between ages 4 and 7... the aticle above tries to show alarm at age 6
Also they are trying to push the job of teeth cleaning onto teachers
...what is wrong with the modern day parents ?