UK - Nearly one million teeth pulled from British children last year

...........However, Barry Cockcroft, the Chief Dental Officer, described the decline in complex treatments as “evidence that the new system is freeing up time that dentists can use to deliver more preventative care”. “It is also a reflection of changing oral health, which has improved dramatically over the past 30 years and oral health for children in England is now among the best in Europe.” He added that dentists “would be deeply shocked by the suggestion that patients may be deliberately under-treated to maximise profit”...........