Why Yorkshire Has England’s Highest Child Tooth Decay Rate, and What Actually Prevents It
Government data for the year ending 2025 shows something worth sitting with: children in Yorkshire and the Humber are extracted at a higher rate, due to decay, than children anywhere else in England. Not slightly higher. More than double the national average. The numbers, plainly Across England, NHS hospitals carried out 56,143 tooth extractions on children up to 19 in the year ending 2025, a 14% rise on the year before. Of those, 33,976 had a primary diagnosis of tooth decay, up 11%. Decay remains the single most common reason a child aged five to nine ends up admitted to…
