Alice Grasveld: oral health programs for children must start from the ground up
Pragmatic community-centred approach to childhood oral health worth understanding for practitioners working in multicultural or low-income settings.
Prevention
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Derbyshire dentist distributes 6,000 toothbrushes to address children's dental access gap
NHS access crisis driving preventive outreach: practical model other practices can replicate.
EFP backs Cyprus Declaration on Oral Health in Europe
EFP-backed declaration pushes for oral health integration into European healthcare policy and systems.
EFP launches three-year Gum Health Day campaign on prevention
EFP's expanded campaign framework and SEPA's peri-implant prevention consensus offer actionable guidance for clinical practice.
Maternal antibodies may programme lifelong gum disease resistance
Mouse study suggests maternal antibodies shape oral immunity into adulthood, informing future periodontal prevention strategies.
Childhood oral disease linked to heart risk in adulthood
Study shows childhood caries and gingivitis linked to adult heart disease; prevention in paediatric patients has broader health implications.
Communication as core clinical care, not an extra, says dental therapist
Explores how therapists can position communication as clinical care, not bedside manner, to improve patient outcomes.
Prevention starts early: dental therapist challenges practice-focused care model
Therapist highlights why prevention policy fails in practice and where the profession's collaboration breaks down.
Six percent of UK children needing general anaesthetic dentistry have siblings with same treatment
First UK study linking sibling DGA patterns to ethnic and socioeconomic disparities; identifies family-level prevention window at two years between procedures.
Tooth decay costs highest for deprived groups, six-country study finds
The cost modelling supports a prevention-first approach targeting deprived patients, with potential savings of up to £14,000 per person in the UK.