Professor Martyn Cobourne: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Quoted on
- Dentistry access, Children's health
- Press citations held
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“This is an entirely avoidable public health failure. Tooth decay is preventable, yet thousands of children are still ending up in hospital every year for treatment that could have been avoided through good oral health habits and access to an NHS dentist.”
What Professor Martyn Cobourne has said
“This is an entirely avoidable public health failure. Tooth decay is preventable, yet thousands of children are still ending up in hospital every year for treatment that could have been avoided through good oral health habits and access to an NHS dentist.”
Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery · Dentistry access · 29 Sept 2026 · More than 20,000 young children taken to hospital to have rotten teeth pulled out ↗
“This is an entirely avoidable public health failure. Tooth decay is preventable, yet thousands of children are still ending up in hospital every year for treatment that could have been avoided through good oral health habits and access to an NHS dentist.”
Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England · Children's health · 29 Sept 2026 · Children's tooth decay an 'avoidable public health failure' – top surgeon ↗
Where Professor Martyn Cobourne has been quoted
- More than 20,000 young children taken to hospital to have rotten teeth pulled outaol.ca · 29 Sept 2026
- More than 20,000 young children taken to hospital to have rotten teeth pulled outaol.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Children's tooth decay an 'avoidable public health failure' – top surgeonhealthcare-management.uk · 29 Sept 2026
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