Super Smiles charity, which is run by dental surgeon Sarah Pollard, a former employee at the Hospital dental department, and dental hygienist Caroline Wetherall to try to improve the dental health of children in Jersey.
The charity works with primary schools to help prevent tooth decay as well as providing the children with the tools they need to develop and maintain good oral health from an early age and they not only try to tackle poor oral hygiene, but they also talk to the children about how sugar in food and drinks affects the body as well as their teeth.
With the right support and funding it believes it could potentially halve the decay rate in five-year-olds within three years and although the recent dental survey of decay rates in five-year-olds suggests a low decay rate, it says that there are still significant levels of disease across all ages of schoolchildren.
Find out more about the charity on our Parenting page, in Wednesday’s JEP.
