This article focuses on strategies to reduce the burden of dental caries across the
population, using fluorides and some other dental caries preventive agents. It is imperative …

Indigenous populations around the world experience a disproportionate burden in terms of
oral diseases and conditions. These inequalities are likely due to a complex web of social …

Background Dental disease has far-reaching impacts on child health and wellbeing. We
worked with Aboriginal Australian communities to develop a multifaceted oral health …

Objectives Early childhood caries (ECC) constitutes a serious public health issue, especially
in communities without water fluoridation. We assessed the effectiveness of biannual …

Background Early childhood caries is the most common chronic childhood disease
worldwide. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are twice more likely to …

Objective To quantify the impact of multiyear utilization of preventive dental services on
downstream dental care utilization and expenditures for children. Data Sources/Study …

Introduction: As part of an oral health service for Aboriginal people in central northern New
South Wales (NSW), Australia, oral health promotion was identified as a priority by the local …

Background: The caries experience of Aboriginal children in Western Australia (WA) and
elsewhere in Australia is more than twice that of non-Aboriginal children. Early childhood …

Abstract Objective The Children's Oral Health Initiative (COHI) is a federally funded
community‐based preventive dental programme implemented in geographically remote …

Background A community-led oral health service for Aboriginal people in Central Northern
NSW identified the need for oral health promotion, as well as dental treatment; in three …