There are demands for dental care to be included in New Zealand's public health system.
An Association of Salaried Medical Specialists-commissioned poll shows seven in 10 Kiwis agree it should be free, as it is for children.
Seventy-two percent of respondents say they've delayed a dentist visit due to cost, and only 43 percent had visited a dentist in the last year.
Auckland Action Against Poverty coordinator Brooke Stanley Pao says in the communities they work with, that stat would be higher.
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