Former NFL wide receiver Mike Williams died of brain infections stemming from dental problems, officials say

December 22, 2023

Oral health is health: Better access to dental care may have potential benefits beyond Canadians’ mouths

December 19, 2023

Dental Costs Soaring Across Canada as Fee Guides Get Updated

August 17, 2023

Census 2021 Indigenous Languages Across Canada

March 29, 2023

ADPH Leads Consensus on Child Oral Health

The Government must act urgently to reverse the increasing inequality in child oral health in England.

Last week, a survey of oral health in five-year-old children, produced as part of the National Dental Epidemiology Programme, found that in 2022, over 35% of children in areas of deprivation experienced dentinal decay in comparison to only 13.5% in more affluent areas.

Fluoride: Assessment for Developmental Neurotoxicity

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) conducted a systematic review to assess scientific studies on fluoride exposure and potential neurodevelopmental and cognitive health effects in humans.

Healthy Debate

Canada’s dental program only matters if it gets children into dental offices

Special Issue: Advancing the Behavioural and Social Sciences to Promote Oral Health

Editorial

Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing the Behavioural and Social Sciences to Promote Oral Health

Behavioral and Social Theories, Models, Conceptual Frameworks, and Mechanisms Related to Oral Health

Behavioural and cognitive-behavioural theories in oral health research: Current state and future directions

Reflections on oral health inequalities: Theories, pathways and next steps for research priorities

Conceptualizing inequities and oppression in oral health research

Achieving consensus on priorities for future behavioural and social research into social inequalities—Results of polling attendees at the BEHSR/IADR Summit on Behavioral and Social Oral Health Sciences

Rigorous theory-based intervention research is the bold action needed to address oral health disparities and inequities

Use of Multiple and Novel Methodologies in Social and Behavioral Research and Practice Related to Oral Health

Evolution and development of methodologies in social and behavioural science research in relation to oral health

Challenges in operationalizing conceptual models in aetiological research

Causal inference in dentistry: Time to move forward

The Necessity of qualitative research for advancing oral health

How to use mixed methods in oral health research

Why and how we can use data linkage in oral health research: a narrative review

Methods to madness: The utility of complex systems science in a mad, mad world

From micro to macro: Structural determinants and oral health

Intervention Science: Developing and Testing Behavioral and Social Science Approaches to Promote Oral Health

Behavioural and social oral health intervention research: Looking to the future

Theoretical and methodological approaches in designing, developing, and delivering interventions for oral health behaviour change

Multiphase optimization strategy: How to build more effective, affordable, scalable and efficient social and behavioural oral health interventions

Inequities and oral health: A behavioural sciences perspective

Behavioural medicine theory-based intervention strategies for promoting oral health

Dissemination and Implementation for Oral Health

Dissemination and implementation research for oral and craniofacial health: Background, a review of literature and future directions

Evaluating childsmile, Scotland's National Oral Health Improvement Programme for children

De-implementing opioid prescribing in a dental group practice: Lessons learned

Perspectives on the future of dissemination and implementation research in oral and craniofacial sciences

Editorial

Harnessing the behavioral and social sciences to promote oral health: Where do we go from here?

The Smile Gap:

A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality

World Cavity-Free Future Day 2022 – October 14, 2022

Resources:

• Postcard one: Keep Brushing, Keep Smiling 
• Postcard two: A family that brushes together, smiles together 
• Postcard three: Brush Now, Save Later
• Postcard four: Brush on the go
• Postcard five: Fluoride toothpaste keeps your teeth strong 
• Postcard six: Why not try some delicious sugar-free treats
• Postcard seven: We brush better when we brush together
• Postcard eight: A little change makes a big difference
• Postcard nine: Build healthy habits
• Postcard ten: Go shopping for oral hygiene 

Position Statement on Community Water Fluoridation

Position Statement on Individual and Professional Methods of Fluoride Use

Editorial:

From a call to action to taking action: Exploring the science, education, practice, and policy implications of dental public health as an antiracist discipline

Effects of Racism:

Racism and oral health equity in the United States: Identifying its effects and providing future directions

Stronger together. Diverse dentists weigh in on racism and its impact on oral health in our communities

How do state-level racism, sexism, and income inequality shape edentulism-related racial inequities in contemporary United States? A structural intersectionality approach to population oral health

Racism in oral healthcare settings: Implications for dental care-related fear/anxiety and utilization among Black/African American women in Appalachia

Effects of Discrimination:

A student-led qualitative study to explore dental undergraduates' understanding, experiences, and responses to racism in a dental school

American Indian/Alaska Native, Black, and Hispanic dentists' experiences of discrimination

Slipping through the cracks: Just how underrepresented are minorities within the dental specialties?

Perceived racial discrimination partially mediates racial-ethnic disparities in dental utilization and oral health

Landmark Global Strategy on Oral Health Adopted at World Health Assembly 75

Oral Health in America- Advances and Challenges

Oral Health in America Editors Issue Guidance for Improving Oral Health for All:

The 2021 Report on Oral Health in America: Directions for the Future of Dental Public Health and the Oral Health Care System

Oral Health in America 2021: Making a Case for Curricular Change

Oral Health in America: Implications for Dental Practice

Fluoride Going Back in to Water System for Windsor, Tecumseh and LaSalle

Quebec to Offer Free Dental Services to Vulnerable People in 5 Pilot Projects

Calgary to Reintroduce Fluoride to Water Following City Council Vote

Global Health Matters Podcast with Dr. Garry Aslayan

New Mouth Dentistry

Oral Health Basics

Halitosis: Causes, Treatment, and Prevention

Dental Requests for Non-Registered Indigenous/Inuit Children

Orthodontic Request

Jordan’s Principle Request Form

Highlights - America’s Oral Health: An Emerging Crisis

Summer 2019, Issue 13

Summer 2018, Issue 12

Ending Childhood dental caries - WHO implementaion manual