[HTML][HTML] Raising awareness of oral cancer from a public and health professional perspective

LMD Macpherson - British dental journal, 2018 - nature.com
Low public awareness of oral cancer and delays in symptomatic patients presenting to
health services have been identified as contributing factors to poor survival rates. In order to …

Developing a new self-reported scale of oral health outcomes for 5-year-old children (SOHO-5)

G Tsakos, YI Blair, H Yusuf, W Wright, RG Watt… - Health and quality of life …, 2012 - Springer
Background Information on the impact of oral health on quality of life of children younger
than 8 years is mostly based on parental reports, as methodological and conceptual …

Sustainability in dentistry: a multifaceted approach needed

B Duane, R Stancliffe, FA Miller… - Journal of dental …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article provides an introduction to environmentally sustainable dentistry and offers
perspectives on managing drivers to reduce carbon emissions and make dentistry more …

[PDF][PDF] Supervised toothbrushing programs in primary schools and early childhood settings: A scoping review

V Dickson-Swift, A Kenny, M Gussy… - Community Dent …, 2017 - cdhjournal.org
Objective: In this article we report the findings of a scoping review that aimed to identify and
summarise the range of programs and guidelines available for toothbrushing programs in …

National supervised toothbrushing program and dental decay in Scotland

LMD Macpherson, Y Anopa… - Journal of dental …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
We aimed to assess the association between the roll-out of the national nursery
toothbrushing program and a reduction in dental decay in five-year-old children in a …

Positive association between sugar consumption and dental decay prevalence independent of oral hygiene in pre-school children: a longitudinal prospective study

V Skafida, S Chambers - Journal of Public Health, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Few studies explore how the longitudinal cumulative and combined effects of
dietary habits and oral hygiene habits relate to dental decay in very young children. Methods …

Environmental sustainability and travel within the dental practice

B Duane, I Steinbach, D Ramasubbu, R Stancliffe… - British Dental …, 2019 - nature.com
A significant amount of dentistry's carbon emissions originate from travel (64.5%). Dental-
associated travel affects air quality, releasing over 443 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and …

Improving child oral health: cost analysis of a national nursery toothbrushing programme

Y Anopa, AD McMahon, DI Conway, GE Ball… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Dental caries is one of the most common diseases of childhood. The aim of this study was to
compare the cost of providing the Scotland-wide nursery toothbrushing programme with …

[PDF][PDF] White paper on dental caries prevention and management

NB Pitts, D Zero - FDI World Dental Federation, 2016 - fdiworldental.org
Dental caries is a complex multifactorial disease involving interactions among the tooth
structure, oral microbial biofilm formed on the tooth surface, dietary carbohydrates, mainly …

Evaluation of a national complex oral health improvement programme: a population data linkage cohort study in Scotland

JBR Kidd, AD McMahon, A Sherriff, W Gnich… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Child dental caries is a global public health challenge with high prevalence and
wide inequalities. A complex public health programme (Childsmile) was established. We …