Public Health Shona Robison has made an announcement of the launch of the Childsmile dental programmes across the Scotland in the New Year.

The Childsmile nursery, school and practice programmes worth £15m aim at delivering preventative care for children in primary one and two. Due to the NHS Childsmile scheme, there have been seen an improvement in the dental health of children as they receive services from dental nurses in the school.

A report has revealed that the children in Lothian have the healthiest teeth. There are a number of youngsters who don’t have decaying teeth and also, there is an increase in the number of children signing up to an NHS dentist.

"Our primary children have the best oral health since records began”, said Ms. Robison.

As per a survey, 64% of children who are studying in Primary one in Scotland have no signs of tooth decay. But, in case of poor children, this figure comes out to be 45%. Poor children possess double the chances to have a decayed tooth.

No obvious tooth decay was found in 64.8% of Tayside children and the proportion was 59.7% for Fife’s children in comparison to the national average of 60%. Around 8% of the children across the country had decayed, missing or filled (DMF) teeth.