Survey released on dental health of teenagers

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released Dental health of Australia's teenagers and pre-teen children: The Child Dental Health Survey, Australia 2003-04. Teenage children have been identified as being at increased risk of dental disease, and among pre-teen children nearly half of all six-year-olds had a history of decay in their baby teeth. The Child Dental Health Survey provides national information on the dental health of children attending school dental services in Australia, and shows decay experience is relatively common in both teenage and pre-teen Australian children.