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‘Unacceptable and unworkable’ dentist waiting times for children in Jersey

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August 18, 2021
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The Jersey Dental Association have told ITV Channel they continue to be concerned by the waiting times at the Hospital for Children’s Dentistry.

It’s urging the government to look more closely at long-term provision for children in the island.In a statement it lists the failure to appoint a full-time Consultant Orthodontist in the last 18 months.

The Association also points to a “general lack of staff” in the Dental Department as key factors behind “unacceptable and unworkable” waiting times.

That long-term solution, according to the Dental Association could include Private Practice provision, but it would “need to be properly funded on an ongoing basis”.

As an Association we have repeatedly called for an increased investment in dentistry which has always been treated as the poor relation of medical services. It is still the case that dental extractions under General Anesthesia are the most common reason for admission of children to hospital in the UK.

Jersey Dental Association

This week, the Health Department released a Quality and Performance Report, in which they acknowledged that Community Dental was a “key challenge”. 17-year old Ella was first referred to the hospital dentist when she was aged nine.

She was told to come back a year later, and six months after that but her mother Georgie Dodd, says there has been no progress in Ella’s case since 2015.When she last phoned, she was told Ella had moved from being number 68 to 60 on the waiting list.

When she then sought a private evaluation she was told it would come at a price she could not pay.

I took her to see a private orthodontist and he just couldn’t believe what he was seeing, he couldn’t believe that she’d been made to wait that long. They said it would be at least ten thousand pounds worth of work, which may include breaking her jaw as well. I felt like I’d been punched in the gut, I nearly cried, she was really upset as well…

Georgie Dodd, mother

Deputy Southern has championed access to dental care for years. He says, we now have to spend to save young people’s teeth.

They’ve neglected the dentistry system in the island. They’ve neglected it to the extent that hardly anyone can go anymore. We need to revive some sort of mechanism for getting funding into dentistry to prevent harm in the future. This is spending to save, this is essential to the dental health of our students, and it’s just been neglected for the last 15 years, nothing has happened.

Deputy Southern

Government say that significant work is underway to create short term additional capacity to speed up treatment of long waiting patients, whilst developing a sustainable long term on-island solution.Meanwhile, the Dental Association accuses the government of a lack of willingness to “properly address the problem”.

They say fees for the Jersey Dental Fitness Scheme, which provides for children in lower income households have not been increased for 23 years.



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