Freedom of information requests

Tooth decay

Questions

1. The number of people treated by your Trust after being admitted with issues attributed to tooth decay broken down by each of the years
2. The number of people aged 18 and under treated by your Trust after being admitted with issues attributed to tooth decay broken down by each of the years
3. The number of people whose death has been attributed to issues relating to tooth decay by your Trust broken down by each of the years

Response

The Trust does hold information similar to that requested, but not identical. We have provided what we hold in case it assists.

Our reporting systems do not enable us to extract data relating to the number of patients presenting with tooth decay, nor whether those patients were treated as in-patients or out-patients, however we can only provide the number of treatments performed.

Our patients are classed as adults from 16 years, we cannot split the figures at 18 years.

1. Year	No. of treatment
   2018	1,030
   2019	1,065
   2020	400
   2021	827
   2022	941
   2023 (as at 16 November 2023)	612
   Total figure across these years	4,875

    

   Please note these figures are for the number of treatments attributed to tooth decay, not number of patients
   
   

2. Year	No. of treatments
   2018	401
   2019	342
   2020	193
   2021	403
   2022	653
   2023 (as at 16 November 2023)	441
   Total figure across these years	2,433

    

   Please note these figures are for patients aged under 16 and relate to the number of treatments attributed to tooth decay, not number of patients
   
   

3. Year	No. of people
   2018	0
   2019	0
   2020	0
   2021	0
   2022	0
   2023 (as at 16 November 2023)	0
   Total figure across these years	0