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Pacific children in NZ worst for dental health

Pasifika children are nearly twice as likely to have tooth decay at age five. The Bula Sautu: Pacific health in the year of Covid-19 report, shows Pacific children have higher rates of dental decay and hospitalisations for dental issues than any other group. Image from Tooth Fairy TV ad targeting Pacific children s dental health. Photo: NZ Health Promotion Agency It found oral health in Pasifika kids is in dire state and that they are less likely to have visited a dental health care worker in the past 12 months. Pasifika dentist, Dr Tule Fanakava Misa said it s alarming and heart breaking, highlighting how bad inequality and inequity has become.

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Community Scoop » Dental Association Concern Over Pasifika Dental Health

Press Release – New Zealand Dental Association The New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA) continues to be concerned about the dental health of Pasifika people in New Zealand. The recently released report Bula Sautu: A window on quality 2021: Pacific health in the year of Covid-19 highlighted wider … The New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA) continues to be concerned about the dental health of Pasifika people in New Zealand. The recently released report Bula Sautu: A window on quality 2021: Pacific health in the year of Covid-19 highlighted wider concerns over Pasifika general health. NZDA member, and Pasifika public health dentist, Dr Tule Fanakava Misa says with figures showing only 36 percent of five-year-old Pacific children being free of caries (tooth decay) compared with 69 percent of non-Māori, non-Pacific children are really alarming and heart breaking.

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Heartbreaking : Two thirds of Pacific kids have tooth decay by age 5

Heartbreaking : Two thirds of Pacific kids have tooth decay by age 5
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Heartbreaking : Two-thirds of Pacific kids have tooth decay by age 5

Heartbreaking : Two-thirds of Pacific kids have tooth decay by age 5
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Incentives needed to get dentists in Southland

“We’re at that stage now where incentives need to happen.” While fewer dentists migrated to New Zealand in the past 18 months, there were an increasing number of dentistry graduates from the University of Otago [the only place they get qualified], Ayers said. Supplied New Zealand Dental Association president Katie Ayers. Reidy is concerned people would have to follow her path to some dental relief; seeing the emergency dentist because of a logjam in Southland. She had not been to her dentist in six years, and when the molar gave her issues she found out the dentist had retired, and she had not been transferred to the new practice.

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