Tooth Decay In Children 'At Crisis Point'

Sugary foods and drinks should carry cigarette-style warning pictures to highlight the risk of the products rotting children's teeth, according to a senior dental surgeon. Professor Nigel Hunt, dean of the Royal College of Surgeons' dental faculty, said there was a crisis in the number of children who need to have decayed teeth removed. "We are reaching crisis point in terms of the number of children needing to go into the dental hospitals for full-blown general anaesthetics for extraction," he tells The Sunday Times.