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[Phil1]

Who trains the parents? Isn't it easier to train one person in a school to train the children and let the kids tell their parents how to clean teeth properly?

I imagine a lifetime of brushing your own teeth should be training enough to pass onto your kids.
Is there something I’m missing here? Is brushing your teeth really that complicated or difficult that a mum or dad can’t show the way?

 

[Vic]

I imagine a lifetime of brushing your own teeth should be training enough to pass onto your kids.
Is there something I’m missing here? Is brushing your teeth really that complicated or difficult that a mum or dad can’t show the way?

See my post above. If it was that easy, why have so many adults and children got tooth decay? Why do dentists employ dental hygienists if it was obvious? Why are Britons' teeth so poor?

 

[bluethrunthru]

It is ridiculous, but he doesn't need to do much work for the £86,584, and is free to use his "knowledge" to sell access work as a consultant for thousands a day.

On £118,300 he had to work for the Government, and wasn't allowed to take a second job.

in similar news another tale of heartbreak

 

[bluethrunthru]

purely to bolster the voters they already have - if you are that confident this sort of article needs to be elsewhere not Tory Home

David Davis: Labour’s poll lead will narrow as the election draws nearer. My colleagues should take the point and hold their nerve. | Conservative Home

In the previous five elections, the size of the shift in the polling gap between election day and six months before has been between six per cent and 12 per cent towards the Conservatives.

conservativehome.com

 

[Phil1]

See my post above. If it was that easy, why have so many adults and children got tooth decay? Why do dentists employ dental hygienists if it was obvious? Why are Britons' teeth so poor?

Because a lot of them eat shite on a daily basis.
We should probably focus on that aspect instead of the actual brushing of teeth.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

It doesn't need a dentist with five years' training to teach how to brush teeth. The cheap, easy option seems OK. But it's not really what a teacher trains for either.

But it's okay to use the time of a teacher with 5 years of training? It's not just a question of cost and convenience, it's a question of effectiveness. I'd question how effective a one-off lesson from a teacher is going to be compared to a lesson from a medical professional who has just checked your teeth in detail and knows exactly which bits of your mouth are the problem areas.

Kids teeth aren't rotten because they're not getting a lesson in brushing their teeth from schools, they're rotten because 40% of kids in the UK no longer have regular dental checkups. Teeth are the leading cause of hospitalization for children. The budget for dentistry in the UK has stayed at 3 billion for a decade, which in real terms, is a huge cut in funding. But I wonder how much this lack of funding has cost the rest of the NHS who have to clean up the mess.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Square one is 100x better than whatever we have now anyway haha.

I was gonna say, given the direction we've been travelling in, 'back' sounds like a great direction to go in.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

There are plenty of other people in school these days, but also I think the idea is to actually get the kids to brush their teeth at school regularly, rather than just teach them once.

I know the teacher's unions have come out against it, but if the situation is so bad, then I'm sure something can be worked out. There's nowhere else where the kids all have to go to on a regular basis, and a more holistic approach to the skills kids learn at school wouldn't be a bad thing in my view.

Teachers' unions have likely come out against it because they can already see where it'll end up.

"My little Billy had to have a tooth taken out last week. What are we paying you teachers for? I'm going to sue the school."

 

[bluethrunthru]

I imagine a lifetime of brushing your own teeth should be training enough to pass onto your kids.
Is there something I’m missing here? Is brushing your teeth really that complicated or difficult that a mum or dad can’t show the way?

well thats clearly not happening is it though? We can either seek to do something to stop kids having bad teeth and clogging hospital admissions because they need treatment or we can pontificate on football fan sites and do nothing.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

I imagine a lifetime of brushing your own teeth should be training enough to pass onto your kids.
Is there something I’m missing here? Is brushing your teeth really that complicated or difficult that a mum or dad can’t show the way?

It’s hard to brush your kids teeth when you’ve got a vape in one hand and a mobile phone in the other.