2022 official statistics update from @OHID

#Dental health of 5 year old children in England

One third of 5 yr olds have tooth decay (29.3%)

Those in the most deprived areas of England are 2.5 times more likely to have decay than in the least deprived (35.1% Vs 13.5%)

🧵/1 From 2008 to 2017 there was a clear trend of significant improvement in the prevalence of tooth decay in 5 year olds in England (from 30.9% to 23.3%)

**There have been no further significant improvements in oral health since 2017**

#dentistry #Health #oralhealth

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Trust has long been recognised as a key part of an effective doctor–patient relationship

There has been little research into the perceived trustworthiness of #dentists

We set out to adapt and test a Dentist Trust Scale onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

Tweetorial🧵1/? While it has been acknowledged that patient trust is important in #dentistry there has been no psychometrically valid way to measure this concept

This has hampered [quantitative] investigation to date

Adapting and testing a measure of #trust provides an important first step

A Critical Analysis of Underrepresentation of Racialised
Minorities in the UK Dental Workforce

Open access paper by @Rizwanalala @MuirheadVanessa and myself as part of our 'Race and Oral Health' @IADR #IADR2021 symposium published in @CDHJournal

cdhjournal.org/article/789-a-… The data shows adequate representation of racialised minorities in the first two stages of the dental workforce pipeline; (1) entry to dental schools and (2) completion of dental education.

From 2014-2015 total funding for NHS dentistry decreased by 4% in real terms, while charges individual patients pay to access NHS dentistry increased by 9% in real terms There is considerable variation in NHS dentists per head of the population. Top place is Bradford City. Bottom place is South Lincolnshire.