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.
“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.
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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.
Coroner finds Rotorua dentist Grant Wells died after a heart attack at his home
17 Apr, 2021 11:59 PM
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Grant Wells, who ran a dental practice in Rotorua for 38 years, died in September last year. Photo / Supplied
Grant Wells, who ran a dental practice in Rotorua for 38 years, died in September last year. Photo / Supplied
Long-time Rotorua dentist Grant Wells meticulously cared for his patients at his practice, giving everything he had to ensure he did a good job. His sudden death in September last year from a heart attack came as a shock to his family, colleagues and patients who have paid tribute to the 66-year-old.
Sugar: we eat 37 teaspoons a day of added sugar.
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A new report, led by the researchers from the University of Cambridge and published in the British Medical Journal, found the UK s tax on sugary drinks resulted in a 10 percent decrease in peoples sugar consumption.
The British government pushed through [https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018638824/taxing-sugary-drinks the levy in April 2018.
It is a two-tiered tax levied on soft drinks manufacturers, to encourage them to reduce the sugar content in their products.
The study found one year on from that tax coming into effect, the overall volume of soft drinks being purchased did not change, but the actual sugar levels did, by about 10 percent, per household.