Calls for dental care overhaul

A report from the National Dental Health Advisory Council has proposed big changes to Australia's dental care, but the government has so far made no commitments, Luke Waters reports.

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Published 28 February 2012 6:05pm

Updated 26 August 2013 9:20am

By Luke Waters

Source: SBS

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It's one of Australia's most serious health problems: inadequate dental care, especially among the poor and disadvantaged, such as Indigenous communities.

Yet the question of cost looks like it could stymie the latest proposal to improve things.

A report from the National Dental Health Advisory Council has proposed big changes to help the most vulnerable.

But the government is making no commitments and it's rejected calls for an immediate universal dental scheme.

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