UK - NHS gives dentists a reason to smile

1:50pm Sunday 3rd January 2010
NHS Warrington is providing dentists with fluoride varnish to apply to the teeth of all children attending a treatment.
Fluoride varnish helps prevent dental decay and its use is recommended by the Department of Health.
Evidence suggests that it can reduce decay by 30 to 40 per cent in the child population when used regularly. Kerry Davis, acting primary care lead for NHS Warrington, said: “Our dentists have responded positively to using fluoride varnish.
“Within 12 months of the scheme starting, high street dentists working in Warrington are using fluoride varnish twice as often as dentists in the north west and five times more frequently than the average dentist in England.”
As part of its Dental Commissioning Strategy, NHS Warrington has provided 21 high street dental practices with the varnish and will continue to do so in 2010.

If they are as careless as the dentist who applied it to my son's teeth it will give them a good reason to be sick as well as get fluorosis.