Children in parts of England are waiting up to 18 months on average to have painful decayed teeth extracted.
Head teacher Alison Grantham says toothache "has a massive impact on learning because they're missing lessons".
"We don't like to see any of our children suffering or in pain - but a lot of the time, there's something you can do straightaway that can help that. "But with teeth, it's far more difficult. There's no magic solution."Dentists from the charity Teeth Team visit children at primary schools across Hull and parts of East Yorkshire. And BBC News joined them at Maybury Primary in May.Among the 169 children given a dental check-up that day, there were 263 decayed teeth.
"It's disturbing. It's not very nice to see, because a child's going under a general anaesthetic for something that's preventable. It doesn't have to happen.
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