Ending the misery of child dental decay

Dental caries in children's teeth has drastically declined in the last 30 years. We should be proud of this achievement but there is much still to do. One of the greatest stumbling blocks to further progress is, I believe, the current payment system for NHS children's dentistry which has failed to promote effective prevention amongst the most caries prone. To remedy this I propose some simple, low cost changes which could make decay in a child's tooth a rarity in our practices.