Dental Health Of 5-Year-old Children

EDM number 192 in 1991-92, proposed by Gareth Wardell on 19/11/1991.

That this House notes with great alarm the results of the survey carried out by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry, which shows that among its five-year-old children, Gwynedd has an average of 1.96 decayed, missing or filled (DMF) teeth per child (ranking it in 128th place out of 178 district health authorities in England and Wales), Pembrokeshire has an average of 2.02 DMF teeth per child (ranked in 134th place), West Glamorgan has an average of 2.11 DMF teeth per child (ranked in 140th place). South Glamorgan has an average of 2.25 DMF teeth per child (ranked in 151st place), Clwyd has an average of 2.31 DMF teeth per child (ranked in 154th place), Powys has an average of 2.36 DMF teeth per child (ranked in 157th place), East Dyfed has an average of 2.94 DMF teeth per child (ranked in 168th place, Gwent has an average of 3.01 DMF teeth per child (ranked 170th place) and Mid-Glamorgan has an average of 3.5 DMF teeth per child (ranked in 178th place out of 178); regards this inequality of dental health as wholly unacceptable; and urges the Government to respond immediately to bring all these district health authorities into line with Bromsgrove and Redditch, where the average is 0.55 DMF teeth per child.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.