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Article History

Received: 1 April 2022

Accepted: 22 June 2022

First Online: 25 November 2022

Ethics declaration

: This study was devised to calculate the volume of primary care orthodontic activity commissioned and comparing this to the 12-year-old population and ascertain the orthodontic workforce undertaking NHS orthodontic provision within Wales along with their distribution. The information gathered was via the use of publicly available information, freedom of information requests, liaising with primary care directors and contractor managers within Health Boards, along with the established orthodontic clinical networks within Wales. All received data was anonymised to ensure that it is non-identifiable, only summary data at an All Wales and Health Board level is presented within this article. As such, the study did not require ethical approval as it was not considered research as per the Medical Research Council/NHS Health Research Authority assessment tool ().