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Welsh Health Circular 2017: Refocusing of the Designed to Smile child oral health improvement programme

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Published on: 24th August 2022

  • All Wales/National

This Welsh Health Circular (WHC) describes the evidence based refocus of Designed to Smile to build on the achievements of this national programme and to ensure continued progress and improvement in the future.

It replaces WHC(2008)008 which introduced D2S as two “super pilots”, and the subsequent Ministerial Letter (EH/ML/032/09) which built on the initial programme and ensured programme delivery throughout Wales.

D2S is making a real impact on the dental health of young children in Wales and we are seeing reducing levels of tooth decay. A Public Health Wales Consultant in Dental Public Health and a Specialist in Public Health are working closely with Welsh Government to support programme delivery. There is increasing evidence that children who are decay free by 5 will have far less decay throughout their life time than children who have decay before the age of 5.

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