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Oral health inequalities remain a major public health concern in the UK

LONDON, UK: Despite being largely preventable, poor dental health continues to be a major public health issue in England. This is evident in a recent report...

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Doubled-edged sword: AI must foster, not worsen, sustainability in dental care

LYON, France: Given that dentistry is already struggling to increase equity of care and reduce its adverse impact on the environment, the ethical duality of...

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Improving oral health in India using mobile dental vans

WARDHA, India: Health authorities in India face several obstacles in the efficient delivery of dental care, including a dentist-to-population ratio that is ...

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Socio-economics and geography determine oral health disparities, not race and ethnicity

BOSTON, US: Astonishingly, ten million school days are missed owing to dental caries, the most common chronic disease of children in the US, and there are ...

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Scotland’s poorest paying the price for dental crisis, says British Dental Association

EDINBURGH, Scotland: Fresh statistics from Public Health Scotland have revealed widening oral healthcare inequities in Scotland, and the British Dental ...

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New Zealand increases dental grant after 25 years

WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Oral healthcare campaigners in New Zealand are celebrating an increase in the special needs dental grant and a broadening of the ...

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Prof. Richard Watt discusses the role of dental hygienists in prevention

As director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Health Inequalities and Public Health, Prof. Richard Watt is well positioned to understand the extent ...

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New Zealand’s dental system causing a childhood oral health crisis, experts say

OTAGO, New Zealand: Dental care in New Zealand is among the most expensive in the world, leading many residents to delay dental check-ups or avoid them ...

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Prof. Liz Kay assumes role of BDA president

LONDON, UK: On 7 September, renowned academic and dental public health specialist Prof. Liz Kay was inaugurated as the British Dental Association’s (BDA) ...

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Partnership seeks to improve Indigenous representation in dental workforce

SYDNEY, Australia: Though an estimated 3.3% of the Australian population identifies as Indigenous, statistics collated by the Australian Institute of Health...

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Interview: “Oral healthcare is a right, and not a luxury”

Though the importance of oral health for systemic health is well established, providing access to affordable preventive dental services continues to be an ...

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BDA: “Scotland’s huge oral health inequalities cannot be allowed to widen”

EDINBURGH, UK: The havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic across the world has meant that patient attendance levels at dental practices have dropped quite ...

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Report shows Australians are avoiding dentists owing to associated costs

SYDNEY, Australia: Though the importance of good oral health is clear to most, if not all, Australians, access to dental services remains a considerable ...

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Interview: Dr Jalal Khan, operator of the Dental Truck

In Australia, the provision of oral health services for rural and remote communities can be extremely difficult, not least of all because of the country’s...

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