Nunavut’s chief dental officer says there are still hundreds of children in the territory who need urgent dental care.
Around 550 Nunavut children are waiting for dental treatment requiring general anesthetic — meaning they need to be put to sleep while the dental work is done, said Ron Kelly. Approximately 230 to 240 of those children are in the Baffin region.
“It [the wait time] can be up to a year, which is too long,” Kelly said. “If a child requires services under general anesthetic in the hospital … they have some serious dental health problems.”
He estimated about 90 per cent of children and young adults in Nunavut communities are in need of some form of dental work.
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