That's correct. About 2.2 million days of school are missed by children because of emergency dental care, as you've noted. They unfortunately in many cases end up in an emergency room in a hospital, and we know that this is not the right place for children to be looked after.
That is also the source of the majority of surgeries under anesthesia for children. If you look at all surgeries under anesthesia that are done for children, the majority of those are due to dental conditions, which, again, prevention would have prevented in many cases. It obviously impacts much more so the lower-income families, including families from marginalized communities who face all sorts of trouble and struggles in life, making them, again, very unable to access basic, fundamental dental care for their children.
It's a fundamental right in Canada to have access to appropriate health care, and that includes appropriate dental care.