A councillor suggests sending dentists into schools to combat the access problem.
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The commissioner for NHS dentistry, Jo Lawton, said children in the Wiltshire town have an access rate of 47.6%."If children aren't getting treatment, they are just storing up problems for later years and that might include wider health problems," a councillor said.
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