Six in four children under the age of four do not receive dental checks despite the crisis in NHS funding

The figures reveal that six children aged one to four in ten have not visited an NHS dentist.

NHS Digital's data badysis also revealed that four in ten children of all ages in England, or about five million, had not undergone any dental checkup in 2018.

Dental caries is the main reason for the admission of a child to the hospital.

According to the guidelines, children should be registered as soon as their first teeth appear, be examined once by one, and then go each year.

The Royal College of Surgeons research was published while other data suggested that half of the NHS surgeries were now closed to new patients due to a funding crisis.

Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen of the British Dental Association said: "No government claiming to value prevention should not let five million children miss a free visit."

A spokesman for the Department of Health said, "We are working closely with NHS England to improve access to dental services."