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# Dental care

Last year
2022
# Dentists
Exodus of dentists from medical card scheme leaving vulnerable households without dental care
Figures from the start of this year showed just 660 dentists were actively treating medical card patients.
23.2k
12
Jun 13th 2022, 12:05 AM
# Dental care
Calls for dental vouchers to replace medical cards as dentists warn scheme nears 'total collapse'
A raft of dentists have exited the medical card scheme over difficulties with the fee structure.
29.3k
23
Feb 21st 2022, 9:19 AM
All time
# budget 2020
Free dental care for under-6s and free GP visits extended to under-8s from September 2020
The changes will be brought in from next September.
43.7k
27
Oct 8th 2019, 1:56 PM
# Smile
Harris smooths out rift with dentists over how to roll out free dental care for kids
Harris has said free dental care for children will begin to be rolled out from next year
10.4k
11
Aug 28th 2019, 8:28 AM
# Tourism
The pound's plunge is sending Irish 'tooth tourists' north of the border
The hotels lobby says it’s an example of how Brexit is disrupting the industry’s trade.
525
0
Sep 21st 2017, 4:27 PM
# Lisa Needs Braces
There has been a big drop in people getting HSE-funded dental treatments
New CSO figures show a 16.4% drop in HSE-funded dental treatments between 2013 and 2016.
13.4k
25
Jul 26th 2017, 10:01 PM
# preventable measures
Dentists call for regular teeth screenings in schools to avoid 'traumatic' extractions
Thousands of children have teeth extracted under general anaesthetic each year.
7.9k
24
Feb 28th 2017, 6:05 AM
# untold damage
Lack of dental care sees nursing home patients needing up to 20 teeth extracted at once
One of country’s senior dentists reveals some nursing homes neglecting duty of care to elderly.
12.3k
14
Feb 12th 2017, 9:30 AM
# Your Say
Poll: Have you visited the dentist in the last year?
Experts say you should go once a year, but it is a cause of anxiety for some people.
28.5k
72
Oct 22nd 2016, 10:20 AM
Voices
Opinion: Water fluoridation is controversial, but trust evidence over scaremongering
Scare tactics and misinformation should have no place in deciding public health policy.
5.6k
624
Oct 4th 2014, 7:00 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Do you put off going to the dentist?
Nearly one third of people are putting off going to the dentist because of the cost. Do you put off going?
9.8k
72
Nov 29th 2012, 9:40 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Here’s the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
8.2k
14
Nov 29th 2012, 8:52 AM
# Dental care
HSE underspent on dental care by €11.5m last year
Dentists are furious at new figures which showed that the HSE had budgeted €63m for dental care, but only spent €51.5m.
3.9k
26
Jan 20th 2012, 3:50 PM