Almost a tenth of Poole residents are not registered with dentists.
One in five Poole residents have been revealed to not have regular check-ups with an emergency dentist, a new survey has shown. 
The Bournemouth Daily Echo reported that of the 233 people from the town who took part in a recent poll carried out by head and neck cancer support charity About Face, 8.5 per cent were not registered with a dentist, while nine per cent were but did not go regularly.
“As in all cancers, early detection of mouth cancers can dramatically improve a patient’s chances … A good dentist looks out for so much more than just how pearly white your teeth are,” commented About Face chief executive Ian Catley.
Elsewhere, Dr Willie Hamilton, consultant senior lecturer of the Department of Community Based Medicine at the University of Bristol, recently said failure to detect mouth cancer in its early stages is one of the major contributory factors to the deaths of more than 5,000 people every year.
He added that the introduction of cancer screening could be instrumental in saving lives in the future.