Oral Health and the EYFS - what does this mean for me?
Oral Health’ is explicitly referred to in Section 3 – The Safeguarding and the Welfare Requirement of the EYFS under Medicines, paragraph 3.45, because, whilst tooth decay is largely preventable, significant numbers of children aged 5 continue to have tooth decay and this can negatively impact them in several ways.
The recently published results of an oral health survey undertaken by the National Dental Epidemiology Programme1 during the 2021 to 2022 school year showed that, across the UK, there was evidence of some level of dental decay in 29.3% of five-year-old children, with tooth extraction being the most common reason for a child under 6 to have a general anaesthetic. It also showed that children living in the most deprived areas of the country were also 3 times more likely to have dental decay compared to those living in the least derived areas.
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