Rural dental concerns
December 2, 2010
ACCORDING to a recent Oral-B
report, around one third of
Australian children living in remote
communities, low-income families
and of indigenous descent, have
never seen a dentist.
The report, a collaboration
between Dr David Manton of the
Melbourne Dental School; Peter
Wong from the Australasian
Academy of Paediatric Dentistry;
Professor Richard Widmer from the
Children’s Hospital at Westmead;
Dr Susan Tregeagle from
Barnardos Australia; and Oral-B
Dentist Dr Stephen Blatchford, also
found that as many as eight in 10
children fail to brush their teeth
twice a day.
To combat this, Oral-B has
launched a Health Program which
is aimed at educating one million
Australians on how to achieve
healthier mouths; and in its first
year will fund a dental grants program
for children from regional areas.
As part of the plan, last week a
mobile clinic tour launched providing
free check-ups for regional living
children, whilst any parent or carer
of a child found to require dental
work will be encouraged to apply
for an Oral-B Health Program
grant on their behalf.
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