FoI Number
2025-006
Subject
Dental A and E
Date Received
02/04/2025
Request and Response
  1. In the period January 1 to December 31, 2024, how many times did patients present at your A&E departments (to include major A&E departments and minor injuries units) with dental health problems?

If you have any specialist facilities for dental treatment, please exclude these.

Of these patients:

  1. Can the numbers please be broken down by type of problem e.g. toothache, abscess/infection, loss of teeth, broken or loose teeth, gum disease/bleeding from the mouth, decay.
  2. Please can you provide for the following calendar years 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, how many times did patients present at your A&E departments (to include major A&E departments and minor injuries units) with dental health problems?

Please can you provide the following information in an Excel sheet for ease of access in viewing?

See attached excel spreadsheet