More than 1 / 4 Australian adults were found to have tooth decay. (photo by the Daily Telegraph)
The high cost of dental treatment has caused more and more new state residents to bite their teeth and ignore their dental health.
According to the Daily Telegraph, according to the latest survey released by the Gladon Institute (Grattan Institute), there are as many as 2 million Australians in urgent need of medical treatment but not leaving each year because of the high cost of dental care.
The latest figures show that 17.1% of new state residents do not receive basic dental care. More than one in four Australian adults suffered from tooth decay and 23 percent suffered from periodontal disease, the study found. More than a third of the respondents said they had either experienced toothache in the past year or because their teeth were unhappy with their appearance.
Many people mentioned that they had to avoid certain foods because of tooth problems. On average, the number of teeth in the low-income population is less than that in the higher-income population. People earning less than A $30, 000 had an average of 8.6 teeth missing, compared with just 3.2 for those with a household income of more than A $ one hundred and forty thousand.
Duckt (Stephen Duckett), head of health at the Grayton Institute, said the high cost of dental care was the main reason for the deterioration in the health condition of the new state's population. He notes that patients on the waiting list of new state public dental clinics usually wait more than a year to get treatment.
Poor oral health has a negative impact on people's self-esteem and overall health, Dackett said.
The Grayton Institute study found that patients had to pay most of the cost of oral health care on their own, so most people simply couldn't afford it, except waiting in line for a few years on the waiting list for public health care.
The researchers note that there are no compelling medical, economic or law reasons for medical differentiation between the oral and other parts of the human body, and that dentists should be treated in line with general practitioners.
They argue that Australia's current dental health policy is not only "inadequate", but there are also problems such as "incompatibility" and "injustice" among states.
In addition, the report found that many Australians' dental health could have been prevented or mitigated through care and early intervention.
According to (National Advisory Council on Dental Health), Australia's National Dental Health Advisory Council, Australian dentists receive more than seven hundred and fifty thousand visits a year, and taxpayer pays as much as A $30 million in taxes.