Browsing Centre for Dental Public Health and Primary Care by Subject "Oral Health"
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An Assessment of Pediatric Dental Caries and Family Quality of Life in an Informal Amazonian Community.
(2021)BACKGROUND: Oral diseases are among the most prevalent non-communicable diseases worldwide, disproportionally affecting vulnerable populations. The Community of Claverito is one of many informal urban floating communities ... -
Beyond the dental silo.
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Dental caries and anthropometrics of children living in an informal floating Amazonian community: a cross-sectional pilot study.
(2022)AIMS: Increasing evidence supports a relationship between poor oral health and growth in children. Our objective was to assess the association between the presence of dental caries and anthropometric measurements of children ... -
Developing a Standard Set of Patient-centred Outcomes for Adult Oral Health - An International, Cross-disciplinary Consensus.
(Elsevier, 2021-01-16)OBJECTIVE: To develop a minimum Adult Oral Health Standard Set (AOHSS) for use in clinical practice, research, advocacy and population health. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An international oral health working group (OHWG) was ... -
Education mediates the relationship of parental socioeconomic status with subjective adult oral health.
(2023-08-10)BACKGROUND: Evidence shows that both socioeconomic status (SES) during childhood and education are associated with adult oral health. However, whether the range of opportunities families have regarding their children's ... -
Ending the neglect of global oral health: time for radical action.
(2019-07-20)Oral diseases are a major global public health problem affecting over 3·5 billion people. However, dentistry has so far been unable to tackle this problem. A fundamentally different approach is now needed. In this second ... -
Ethnicity, Social Support and Oral Health Among English Individuals.
(2023-02-28)OBJECTIVE: To determine whether social support explains ethnic inequalities in oral health among English individuals. METHODS: Data from 42704 individuals across seven ethnic groups in the Health Survey for England (1999-2002 ... -
Evaluation of a pilot oral health promotion programme 'Keep Smiling': perspectives from GDPs, health champions and school staff.
(2015-04-24)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a pilot oral health promotion programme (fluoride varnish and tooth brushing), targeting 3-7-year-olds in primary schools in a deprived area of London. METHOD: A pilot programme was conducted among ... -
Family functioning and dental caries among preschool children.
(2022-09)OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship of family functioning with dental caries among 3-4-year-olds and the role of family functioning in explaining the relationship of family socioeconomic status (SES) with childhood ... -
Family functioning and preschool children's oral health-related quality of life.
(2023-04)INTRODUCTION: Identifying which aspects of how a family functions are relevant to child oral health provides opportunities for interventions targeting the family context. The aim of this study was to investigate the ... -
Impact of oral clefts on the oral health-related quality of life of preschool children and their parents.
(2018-09)OBJECTIVE: To assess the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of preschool children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) and their relatives. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 55 2-5-year-old children ... -
Impact of Pregestational Obesity on the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Brazilian Pregnant Women: A Cohort Study.
(2024-06-06)The oral health-related quality of life of pregnant women and its effects on health conditions are important topics to be investigated in scientific research. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of ... -
Intragenerational social mobility and self-rated oral health in the british cohort study.
(2021-04-07)BACKGROUND: Most studies on social mobility and oral health have focused on movement between generations (intergenerational mobility) rather than movement within an individual's own lifetime (intragenerational mobility). ... -
Oral Health Disparities in Children: A Canary in the Coalmine?
(2018-10)Despite being largely preventable, oral diseases are still a major public health problem in child populations in many parts of the world. Increasingly, however, oral diseases disproportionately affect socially disadvantaged ... -
Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of Refugees in Settlements in Greece.
(2022-10)INTRODUCTION: The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL) amongst refugees at emergency dental clinics in settlements in Northern Greece. METHODS: A ... -
Pandemic Considerations on Essential Oral Health Care
(SAGE Publications, 2020-12-09)The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic revealed a lack of consensus on the concept of essential oral health care. We propose a definition of essential oral health care that includes urgent and basic oral health ... -
Role of Dentistry in Global Health: Challenges and Research Priorities.
(2021-07)Despite some improvements in the oral health of populations globally, major problems remain all over the planet, most notably among underprivileged communities of low- and middle-income countries but also in high-income ... -
A scoping review of interventions to improve oral health in prison settings.
(2023-06)OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of oral health interventions implemented in prison settings and explore the barriers and facilitators towards implementation. METHODS: Following Joanna Briggs Institute scoping ...