Sweden offers free dental care to the under-age, but still one out of five six-year-old in Sweden suffer from tooth decay.

New statistics from the National Board of Health and Welfare, show that 77 percent of sex-year-olds had no hole in their teeth in 2013. This is lower than a couple of years previously, and still a bit to go until the World Health Organisation's goal of 80 percent of six-year-olds with any caries or tooth decay by 2020, Swedish Television News reports.

Parents are blamed for being too generous with snacks and sweet drinks."Many parents with young children have themselves...