This piece highlights the deepening crisis in dental care access across Aotearoa, particularly among low-income and Māori communities, and calls for systemic reform grounded in equity, Te Tiriti principles, and universal public funding to address rising costs and health inequity.
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government needs to expand domestic training quotas
Lack of dental graduates, supporting staff forcing some practices to close for goodincreased demand outpaces staffing capacity
Nearly 5000 children with rotten teeth waiting in pain for surgerySocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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