BSPD comments on new findings highlighting lack of awareness of dental neglect in children among GPs.

What is the most clinically effective way to treat caries in children’s teeth? The definitive, evidence-based answer will be known to delegates at BSPD’s annual conference on 11-14th September in Dundee where the results of the FiCTION trial are to be unveiled for the first time.

A call for children’s oral health to feature as a priority in the Health and Wellbeing strategies of local authorities in England where oral health is poorest has been made by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). Their press release calling for a refocusing of priorities is welcomed by the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry, the organisation committed to improving children’s oral health.