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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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Oral healthcare inequalities: Black women in Brazil have higher tooth loss prevalence

CAMPINAS, Brazil: Differences in socio-economic status, sex and race may impact equal access to healthcare. Diving deeper into the topic, researchers have ...

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Pandemic exacerbates UK oral health inequalities

LONDON, UK: Researchers at University College London have highlighted the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect of having widened inequalities in oral health in the ...

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Health secretary’s plan for prevention met with little enthusiasm

LONDON, UK: The British Dental Association (BDA) has questioned the priorities of Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the ...

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Surprising dental health inequalities found between foreign‐ and UK‐born adults

LONDON, UK: Migration patterns in the UK have changed tremendously in the last two decades owing to ease of global travel, asylum seekers from conflict ...

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