AT least 73 million Filipinos suffer from dental caries, making the disease a "serious health concern" in the Southeast Asian country, the Philippines' Department of Health (DoH) said on Wednesday.
"Dental caries is a silent epidemic," Manuel Vallesteros, a division chief at the DoH's disease prevention and control bureau, told reporters after a committee hearing at the House of Representatives.
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