Official Statistics

Oral health survey of 5 year old children 2015

Public Health England has published the results of this biennial national survey, which took place in the academic year 2014 to 2015.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 10 May 2016
• Last updated: 2 January 2019
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  1. 2 January 2019

     Changed link to The UK Government Web Archive.

  2. 10 May 2016

     First published.

Documents

Oral health survey of 5 year old children: 2014 to 2015 results

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20180801132949/http://www.nwph.net/dentalhealth/survey-results%205(14_15).aspx?id=1

Details

The results of the survey show:

• variation at both regional and local authority level for both prevalence and severity of dental decay
• 75.2% of the sample population had no experience of visually obvious dental decay
• children’s dental health has continued to show improvement since 2008