Rachel JohnstonHarrow SLS Librarian’s view: Dental health matters: tackling the ‘national embarrassment’ of the crisis in children’s dental health through children’s books A hospital operation is one experience that no parent would want their child to face, yet every year thousands of children are hospitalised through an entirely preventable cause – tooth decay. The state of children’s teeth has become ‘a national embarrassment’, according to one of the authors of a major report published in September 2024(1) which revealed the extent of the current crisis in children’s oral health. The research shows that fewer than four out of ten …