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# Dental care

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Exodus of dentists from medical card scheme leaving vulnerable households without dental care
Calls for dental vouchers to replace medical cards as dentists warn scheme nears 'total collapse'
Free dental care for under-6s and free GP visits extended to under-8s from September 2020
Harris smooths out rift with dentists over how to roll out free dental care for kids
The pound's plunge is sending Irish 'tooth tourists' north of the border
There has been a big drop in people getting HSE-funded dental treatments
Dentists call for regular teeth screenings in schools to avoid 'traumatic' extractions
Lack of dental care sees nursing home patients needing up to 20 teeth extracted at once
Poll: Have you visited the dentist in the last year?
Opinion: Water fluoridation is controversial, but trust evidence over scaremongering
Jennifer Keane
Poll: Do you put off going to the dentist?
HSE underspent on dental care by €11.5m last year