A lack of access to hospital dental services is causing regional children to languish in pain and in some cases travel vast distances to receive urgent dental care.
Children in regional areas are waiting for months in pain and in some cases travelling thousands of kilometres to access urgent dental care as fewer private hospitals offer the procedures and public waitlists blow out.
"We didn't even really go down that avenue because we knew we would be waiting for too long," Nakita said. "I feel like it is actually increasing as well … the families that we see commonly need pretty urgent dental treatment, and … they're actually struggling to access that dental treatment. Dr Keys, himself a member of the AAPD, said the government's response amounted to a "complete and utter dismissal" of the issue.
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