Funding drops of up to 48% for dental medical card scheme recorded in just three years. Medical card scheme in ‘complete chaos’. ‘The general approach of the Department of Health suggests a level of disrespect, if not contempt, for medical card patients’.

Good oral health is key to preventing halitosis. If bad breath persists, make sure to visit your dentist who is open under all lockdown levels.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly: ‘Dentists are clinically trained, they give people injections all the time’. Government must honour promise to begin vaccination of dentists from February 8th