A dentist has stressed the importance of children receiving the appropriate care if they are to avoid needing emergency dentistry treatment.
Dr Dwight Jones has embarked on a campaign to increase awareness of healthy teeth among children and highlight the risks of tooth decay.
"I see a lot of kids with a large number of cavities," Dr Jones told the Daily Triplicate.
"Twenty-five years ago most had a few cavities, but now we have some that have a few and some that have 20."
Tooth decay is typically caused by eating too much sugar and not cleaning children's teeth properly.
Dr Jones is now trying to combat this issue by educating parents about the most effective methods of cleaning and preventing plaque build-up so they can avoid their children having to undergo a root canal procedure.
He aims to specifically target parents who do not take their children to see the dentist often enough. 