Tariq Drabu is a Manchester born and educated dentist. He is also one of the youngest dentists to ever graduate in the United Kingdom at twenty one years of age. After graduation he worked in some of the busiest dental hospitals in the UK and Saudi Arabia before receiving his Fellowship in Dentistry at the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Today he is the owner of the successful Langley Dental Practice and is also the Clinical Lead Dentist for the Oral Surgery Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services at NHS Heywood Middleton and Rochdale. He also finds time in his exceptionally busy schedule to tutor and mentor postgraduate dentists in oral surgery at the UCLAN Dental Clinic in Preston.Tariq Drabu was speaking about an article recently published on top dental news website. The full article, which was published on 11 May 2016, can be read here.
Tariq Drabu said “4Children, is a national charity working alongside Public Health England to explore the possibility of supervised toothbrushing programmes for children under the age of five years old throughout the United Kingdom. This will be done as part of their “early years” learning”
Tariq Drabu in Manchester went on to say “The focus on the programme is to improve oral health and promote positive oral hygiene routines in children which they can carry through to adulthood. The focus on the programme will be carried out in seventy nurseries and twenty child minder settings, that will reach more than five thousand five hundred children nationwide this year.”
Tariq Drabu closed in saying “The main consideration of the programme is the resources and costs that need to be taken into consideration, along with parent engagement. Currently a quarter of five year olds in the United Kingdom have tooth decay. Hospitalisations in children for tooth extractions has increased by sixty percent in the past five years and this is costing the NHS millions. There is an unnecessary number of children with tooth decay, many having to wait a year to get the hospitalisation they need. A programme of this nature could make a significant impact, improving oral health and helping children improve their oral hygiene routine moving forward.”