Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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The Association Between Cognitive Function and Oral Health in Home Dwellers and Nursing Home Residents: The HUNT Study49
Social Relationships and Tooth Loss in Adults Aged 60 Years and Older: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis35
Effect of personality traits on socioeconomic inequalities in health, a population‐based study32
Centring anti‐oppressive justice: Re‐envisioning dentistry's social contract26
Recent dental visits and family caregiving among individuals with dental symptoms: A nationwide cross‐sectional study in Japan23
Changes in oral health inequalities in adults in Chile20
Journeying towards decolonising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oral health re‐search19
Oral and systemic health in Singapore: Revisiting the past to define the future19
Impact of pulpectomy versus tooth extraction in children's oral health‐related quality of life: A randomized clinical trial18
Inequities and oral health: A behavioural sciences perspective17
Untreated dental caries among Libyan children during and after the war and in internally displaced person camps17
Reflections on oral health inequalities: Theories, pathways and next steps for research priorities16
Behavioural medicine theory‐based intervention strategies for promoting oral health16
Maternal factors and risk of early childhood caries: A prospective cohort study15
Conceptualizing inequities and oppression in oral health research15
Is childhood oral health the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for poor adult general health? Findings from two New Zealand birth cohort studies15
Parents' education and Pasifika children's oral health in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A national linked data study using Aotearoa/New Zealand's integrated data infrastructure15
Sociodemographic Inequalities in Oral Health‐Related Quality of Life in Older Adults: 15 Years Follow‐Up of the 1932 and 1942 Birth Cohorts in Sweden15
Ultra‐processed food consumption and dental caries in adolescents from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort study15
Prolonged breastfeeding, sugar consumption and dental caries at 2 years of age: A birth cohort study14
Oral health inequalities and disability: Closing the gap14
Reliability analysis using the in‐lux examination method for dental indices in adolescents for use in epidemiological studies14
Changes in dental and medical visits before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic among U.S. children aged 1–17 years13
A Data‐Driven Approach Identifies Subtypes of Caries From Dental Charting11
Parent's self‐reported tooth brushing and use of fluoridated toothpaste: Associations with their one‐year‐old child's preventive oral health behaviour11
Sociocultural determinants of children's oral health among immigrants in Canada11
Socioeconomic‐related inequality in dental care utilization among preschool children in China10
Oral and oropharyngeal cancer screening and tobacco cessation discussions, NHANES 2011–201810
Assessing motivational interviewing integrity in the Toddler Oral Health Intervention study10
Efficiency of periodontal treatment to improve type 2 diabetes mellitus outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of economic evaluations10
Recalled body silhouette trajectories over the lifespan and oral conditions in adulthood: A cross‐sectional analysis of the Paris Prospective Study 310
Caries management using silver diamine fluoride and providing domiciliary dental care for dependent older adults: A qualitative study of Swiss dentists10
Experiences of discrimination and oral health‐related quality of life among foreign‐born older Chinese Americans: Does resilience play a mediating role?9
Building an understanding of Indigenous Health Workers’ role in oral health: A qualitative systematic review9
Presentation and subsequent care of dental injuries sustained by New Zealand adults9
Long‐term effects of a community‐based oral health intervention for young children in the Netherlands: A 5‐year follow‐up9
Testing Dental Anxiety and Self‐Care Behaviours as Mediators of the Association Between Executive Functioning and Oral Health Among Young Adults9
The Role of Nationality in Childhood Caries in Qatar9
Prevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection among oral health care workers worldwide: A meta‐analysis9
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Disposable and reusable instruments in dental health practice: A comparison of cost factors in a public provider organization in Queensland, Australia9
Inequalities in dental service utilization among Thai adults from 2000 to 20179
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Edentulism and select chronic diseases among adults aged ≥45 years in China, 2011‐2018: A longitudinal study9
Change in Dental Visits Among Eligible Children Under the Impact of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule in Australia9
Barriers to and facilitators for creating, disseminating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating oral health policies in the WHO African region: A scoping review8
The declining affordability of dental care in New Zealand from 1978 to 20238
Inequalities by sex on remaining teeth in adults: A decomposition analysis8
Why Aren't Antenatal Care Providers Adopting Oral Health Guidelines? A Qualitative Exploration8
Community and individual socioeconomic inequalities and dental caries from childhood to adolescence: A 10‐year cohort study8
Addressing the overlooked: Integrating oral healthcare in a geriatric care system: Insights from Singapore8
Influence of two caries detection strategies on the quality of life of preschool children: An analysis of secondary outcomes of a 2‐Year randomized clinical trial8
Should compromised first permanent molar teeth in children be routinely removed? A health economics analysis8
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Economic evaluation of a water fluoridation scheme in Cumbria, UK8
Designing complex interventions: A description of the development of an intervention to reduce inequalities in planned dental visiting8
Adult oral health‐related quality of life instruments: A systematic review7
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Contextual and local determinants associated with the achievement of goals in the endodontics specialty in Brazilian dental speciality centres: A multilevel analysis7
Dental antibiotic policies, stewardship, and implementation in India: A policy document analysis7
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Improving the Oral Health of Older People in Care Homes: Results From a Randomised Feasibility Study7
A bibliometric analysis of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology: Fifty years of publications7
The CATFISH study: An evaluation of a water fluoridation program in Cumbria, UK7
A qualitative meta‐synthesis of carers’ perceptions of factors influencing preschool children’s oral hygiene practices—A social practices perspective 7
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Periodontal disease in people with a history of psychosis: Results from the UK biobank population‐based study7
Motivational interviewing for preventing oral morbidities in adults: Systematic review and meta‐analysis7
Acculturation and Children's dental service utilization in the United States6
Association between socioeconomic status and traumatic dental injury in permanent teeth: A systematic review with meta‐analysis6
Practice‐Level Variation in the Provision of Subsidised Dental Services to Adult Danes in 2019: A Register‐Based Study6
Using Andersen's behavioural model to examine individual and contextual factors associated with dental service utilization in Brazil6
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Findings from the 2019 nationally representative oral health survey for adults in Singapore6
Oral Health of Rohingya Refugees Accessing Emergency Dental Care in the Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh6
Caries trajectories from childhood to adolescence: Analysis of data from a nationwide school dental service6
Causal analyses in longitudinal observational studies in oral health: A scoping review6
Exploring Barriers and Facilitators to Dietary Assessment and Advice in the Paediatric Population Attending Dental Clinics: A Scoping Review6
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Dental hygienists' scope of practice regulations and preventable non‐traumatic dental emergency department visits: A cross‐sectional study of 10 U.S. states6
‘You learn to smile with your eyes’, exploring the impact of enhanced personal protective equipment on primary care dental practitioners in the UK: An interpretative phenomenological study6
A Systematic Review of Dental Antibiotic Stewardship Interventions6
Does water fluoridation influence ethnic inequalities in caries in Brazilian children and adolescents?6
Inequality in access to dental services in a market‐based dental care system: A population study from Norway 1975–20186
Correction to The life cycle analysis of a dental examination: Quantifying the environmental burden of an examination in a hypothetical dental practice6
Caries lesions progression in adults: A prospective 2‐year cohort study5
How effective and cost‐effective is water fluoridation for adults and adolescents? The LOTUS 10‐year retrospective cohort study5
Healthy Smiles: Promoting Good Oral Health for Youth With Serious Mental Illness5
Dental caries status and related factors among 12‐year‐old Somali school children in Hargeisa5
Caries clusters at lesion‐severity thresholds: A Sierra Leone case study5
Oral health inequalities/inequities: Looking back and looking forward5
Talking about cancer: Patient responses to raising awareness of oral cancer in primary dental care5
Differential effect of social mobility on tooth loss by race in adulthood: 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study5
Reconsidering economic interventions to reduce oral health inequalities5
Atraumatic restorative treatments and oral health‐related quality of life and dental anxiety in Australian Aboriginal children: A cluster‐randomized trial5
Socioecological determinants of child oral health—A scoping review5
Prevalence and socioeconomic factors associated with non‐utilization of dental care in Lebanon: A nationwide cross‐sectional survey5
Socioenvironmental sugar promotion and geographical inequalities in dental health of 5‐year‐old children in England5
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An ethnographic study of a community dentistry network serving Latine migrant farmworkers in Vermont: Barriers and access to care during the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond5
Association between sugary drinks consumption and dental caries incidence among Taiwanese schoolchildren with mixed dentition5
Influence of case definitions on epidemiological estimates of periodontitis prevalence and its associations with smoking and OHRQoL5
Oral cancer epidemiology in relation to inter‐country disparities in human development in south and Southeast Asia5
Behaviour support in dentistry: A Delphi study to agree terminology in behaviour management5
Association between early life cancers and oral healthcare utilization in the NHANES5
Do Norwegian private dental practitioners with too few patients compensate for their loss of income by providing more services or by raising their fees?5
Secondary dental care quality in Brazil: What we are talking about?5
Exploring socioeconomic inequality in caries experience in an adult Norwegian population; the HUNT4 Oral Health Study5
Associations of socioeconomic and health factors with dental non‐attendance: A comparison of three cohorts of women5
Association between acculturation, dental floss use, dental visits and unmet dental needs among Asians in the United States: Findings from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015
Differences in complete denture longevity and replacement in public and private dental services: A propensity score‐matched analysis of subsidised dentures in adult Australians across 20 years5
A proposed community caries index of treatment need derived from the international caries detection and assessment system5
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Dental caries in children in Ireland: A systematic review4
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E‐cigarette, cannabis and combustible tobacco use: associations with xerostomia among California adolescents4
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The Necessity of qualitative research for advancing oral health4
Modelling the impact of increase in sugar prices on dental caries in India4
Oral health‐related stigma: Describing and defining a ubiquitous phenomenon4
Community health worker intervention to improve tooth brushing in young children: Results from a cluster randomized controlled trial4
Using Propensity Score Subclassification to Estimate the Population‐Average Causal Effect of Temporomandibular Dysfunction Experience on Oral Health‐Related Quality of Life Among Australian Adults4
Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Antibiotic Prescribing by Dental Practitioners Across the United Kingdom's Four Countries: A Pharmacoepidemiological Study of Population‐Level Dispensing Data, 2016–4
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Developing a Prototype Home‐Based Toothbrushing Support Tool for Families in Scotland: A Mixed‐Methods Study With Modified Delphi Survey and Semi‐Structured Interviews4
Socioeconomic inequalities related to maternal perception of children's oral health at age 4: Results of a birth cohort4
Application and evolution of design in oral health: A systematic mapping study with an interactive evidence map4
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Association between overweight/obesity and dental outcomes in early childhood: Findings from an Australian cohort study4
Behaviour change intervention for toothbrushing (lesson and text messages) to prevent dental caries in secondary school pupils: The BRIGHT randomized control trial4
Association of children's oral health and school environment on academic performance in 12‐year‐old schoolchildren of Quito, Ecuador4
Are there more women in the dentist workforce? Using an intersectionality lens to explore the feminization of the dentist workforce in the UK and US4
Frequent Sugar‐Sweetened Beverage Consumption, Dental Caries, and the Federal Poverty Level in Children 1–18 Years, NHANES 2015–20204
Does the Self‐Reported Behavioural Automaticity Index provide a valid measure of toothbrushing behaviour in adults?4
Early childhood factors in the development of oral health behaviours in adolescence: A structural equation modelling approach4
Social capital and oral health in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis4
Reporting of absolute and relative risk measures in oral health and cardiovascular events studies: A systematic review4
Periodontitis and risk of immune‐mediated systemic conditions: A systematic review and meta‐analysis4
Prevalence and social determinants of periodontal disease in Colombian pregnant women4
Guest editorial on the special section ‘Oral Health in China’4
Social support associated with restorative treatment, professionally applied fluoride and flossing: A cross‐sectional analysis including recent immigrants from Central America and Mexico in the Midwes4
Exploring the experiences and perspectives of women on oral health during pregnancy: A qualitative study in Tasmania, Australia4
The effect of education on dental service utilization patterns in different sectors: A multiple mediation analysis4
Methods to madness: The utility of complex systems science in a mad, mad world3
Pairwise approach for analysis and reporting of child's free sugars intake from a birth cohort study3
Early Life Trajectories of Household Poverty and Area‐Level Deprivation and Childhood Dental Caries: A Longitudinal Data Linkage Cohort Study3
How Do Persons With Disabilities and/or Complex Health Conditions Perceive Oral Health? A Qualitative Study3
Prevalence and severity of periodontal disease in the host community and Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh3
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Environmental Impact of a Tooth Extraction: Life Cycle Analysis in a University Hospital Setting3
Impact of oral health integration training on children's receipt of oral assessment, fluoride varnish and dental services3
Factors associated with the waiting time for access to specialized oral healthcare services in Brazil3
Outreach dental care program for older adults using residential care or day care services in Hong Kong: A cohort study3
Effects of universal oral healthcare coverage in an adult population: A long‐term nationwide natural experiment3
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Oral Health Promotion Interventions in Residential Aged Care Facilities – A Systematic Review of Behaviour Change Techniques Used in Interventions3
Evaluating childsmile, Scotland's National Oral Health Improvement Programme for children3
Periodontal health predicts self‐rated general health: A time‐lagged cohort study3
Income‐ and education‐based inequalities of edentulism and dental services utilization in Brazil3
Hospital Dental Admissions and Caries Experience Among Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: A Population‐Based Record Linkage Cohort Study3
A qualitative study of dental professionals' and patients' knowledge and perceptions of the impact of periodontal disease on systemic health and quality of life3
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Restricting Periodontal Treatment Frequency: Impact on Tooth Loss in Danish Adults2
The role of oral health‐related quality of life in the association between dental caries and height, weight and BMI among children in Bangladesh2
Mapping population oral health over 50 years of profound socio‐economic change: Learnings from the Republic of Singapore2
Disparities in spatial accessibility to public dental services relative to estimated need for oral health care among refugee populations in Victoria2
Oral health inequalities—Developments in research, policy and practice over the last 50 years2
Workplace oral health promotion activities among community‐aged care workers: A qualitative exploration2
Moving towards social dentistry: How do dentists perceive the Montreal‐Toulouse model?2
Functional dentition and edentulism associated with mortality: A cohort study of older adults in Southern Brazil2
An overview of the burden of oral cancer in Sri Lanka and its inequalities in the face of contemporary economic and social malaise2
Dental caries in the Myanmar population: Findings from the first national oral health survey in 2016–20172
Dissemination and implementation research for oral and craniofacial health: Background, a review of literature and future directions2
Examination of dental utilization of newly resettled adult refugees in Washington state enrolled in dental medicaid program2
Census tract geospatial analysis comparing social determinants of health with tooth loss in California seniors: An ecologic study2
Flawed MIREC fluoride and intelligence quotient publications: A failed attempt to undermine community water fluoridation2
Lifetime Use of Dental Services and Dental Caries in Adolescents in 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort2
Prevalence of dental visits in older Japanese adults receiving public assistance2
Improving access of young adults with experience of homelessness to primary care dental services in the UK: A realist synthesis2
The intersections of socioeconomic position, gender, race/ethnicity and nationality in relation to oral conditions among American adults2
Factors associated with access to dental care among refugees: A systematic review of quantitative studies2
Navigating Disparities in Dental Health—A Transit‐Based Investigation of Access to Dental Care in Virginia2
Critically engaging vulnerability: Rethinking oral health with vulnerabilized populations2
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User satisfaction with Dental Specialty Centers in Brazil: Proposal of satisfaction index and associated factors2
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Effect of oral health literacy on self‐reported tooth loss: A multiple mediation analysis2
Cultural diversity of traditions for the disposal of exfoliated teeth: Implications for researchers2
Effects of dental insurance and dental care utilization on oral health‐related daily life activities among federally qualified healthcare center patients in the United States2
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 Hea2
Multiphase optimization strategy: How to build more effective, affordable, scalable and efficient social and behavioural oral health interventions2
Decline in dental caries experience among schoolchildren in Taiwan, 2012–20202
Role of behavioural and age‐related factors in the long‐term impact of tooth loss on oral health‐related quality of life: A 25‐year follow‐up of Swedish older adults2
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Is the association between social support and oral health modified by household income? Findings from a national study of adults in Australia2
Association between dental caries and molar‐incisor hypomineralisation in first permanent molars: A hierarchical model2
The role of differential exposure and susceptibility to heavy drinking linking income inequalities and tooth loss: An investigation of the alcohol harm paradox using a four‐way decomposition analysis2
Dentists' perspectives on structural and system barriers hindering oral healthcare provision in residential care facilities2
A randomized controlled trial of 6‐month dental home visits on 24‐month caries incidence in preschool children2
The Kimberley Dental Team: A process evaluation of a volunteer dental programme serving remote Aboriginal communities in Australia2
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Poverty Dynamics and Caries Status in Young Adolescents2
Making the case for a new typology of dental care systems2
Perception of parents and caregivers about the need for dental appointments for adolescents from a Brazilian birth cohort2
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