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The role-play area was transformed into a giant mouth at Happy Days Penair Nursery in Truro, Cornwall to enable the children to explore teeth and learn more about their importance and how to look after them.
Nursery practitioners felt that it was a particularly important topic to introduce to the children and their parents because of a national rise in children undergoing tooth extractions in hospital and the local shortage of NHS dental places.
‘There is a long waiting list for NHS dentists in Cornwall, which has led to many of our parents being unable to register their children. They are not receiving the support and advice on how to care for their children’s teeth and this has resulted in some of the children in our care needing teeth removed because of decay,’ says manager Nicky Smith.
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