{"id":393,"date":"2025-07-28T05:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearcutmedia.co.in\/?p=393"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:14:41","slug":"smile-crisis-90-of-indians-have-dental-issues-only-9-see-a-dentist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/smile-crisis-90-of-indians-have-dental-issues-only-9-see-a-dentist\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile Crisis: 90% of Indians Have Dental Issues &amp; Only 9% See a Dentist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Clear Cut Health Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW DELHI | June 25, 2025 Yes, you read that right. Despite 90% of Indians suffering from some form of dental problem, only 9% make it to a dentist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a national survey during the Oral Health Movement (OHM) by Colgate-Palmolive India &amp; the IDA, nearly 72% of the population is at risk of serious oral issues, and the average oral health score is just 2.6\/5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Screening over 4.5 million people across 700+ districts, the study also found 41% at high risk of cavities, 44% for gum disease, and 14% for staining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear Cut Health Desk NEW DELHI | June 25, 2025 Yes, you read that right. Despite 90% of Indians suffering from some form of dental problem, only 9% make it to a dentist. According to a national survey during the Oral Health Movement (OHM) by Colgate-Palmolive India &amp; the IDA, nearly 72% of the population&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}