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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