Many patients still wait up to two years for treatment, but the Queensland Health Minister says the state’s dental waiting list is the best it has been in years.

Queensland Minister for Health Lawrence Springborg says increased investment in oral health has helped clear the backlog of patients, which now sits at its lowest point since the nineteen-nineties.

He has praised the efforts of the Liberal National Party in speeding things along.

When the LNP came to power in 2012, Springborg says more than 62,000 patients had been on waiting lists for some treatments for much longer than two years, with some waiting up to a decade.

“That is now zero, which is a remarkable achievement,” he said in a statement on Friday.

He says said more dentists have been hired along with greater investment in dental health facilities.

He has also given credit to a new voucher system, which allows public patients to access private dentists in some situations.