The government’s National Dental Epidemiology Programme survey for the school year 2021/22, shows that 23.7 per cent of five-year-old children have experienced tooth decay.
This is marginally up on the 23.4 per cent of those of the same age who had experienced the same problems when the government survey was previously carried out in 2019.
Almost two in five (38.7 per cent) of children aged five in the North West have experienced tooth decay, the most of any English region.
Meanwhile in the South West 23.3 per cent of young children have had such problems with their teeth, the lowest proportion of any region in England.
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