Businesses are considering the benefits of dental health programmes.
Companies are increasingly placing value into dentistry as a method of reducing sickness at work.
That is according to the results of SimplyHealth’s Annual Dental Survey for 2010, which discovered that two-thirds of the human resources (HR) managers questioned believe that dental benefits cut absences.
Moreover, this percentage has increased dramatically from 2008 when just 30 per cent of the HR specialists questioned had this view.
Regular dental appointments could help to improve the health of employees, while people who do not receive check-ups could find they require emergency dentistry to treat a decaying tooth.
James Glover, spokesman for SimplyHealth, believes that dental benefits have a “demonstrable value”.
He said: “It is evident that this benefit carefully strikes the balance between adding value to your employee wellbeing package whilst giving something back to the employer.”
The dentistry provider’s poll also discovered that 63 per cent of respondents have struggled to register with an NHS dentist for themselves or their children over the past 12 months.