Children’s Oral Health

Driving improvements in oral health for children and young people through research and collaboration.

Background

Around a quarter of all five-year-old children in England have poor oral health. There are marked inequalities in disease prevalence linked with wider social determinants. Traditionally children and young people’s oral health has sat in a silo, separated from overall child health and wellbeing. This theme is cross-cutting, integrating children’s oral health research across the wider work of CHORAL.

Project Team

Prof. Peter Day

Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry, University of Leeds

Aim:

We aim to improve children’s oral health, in the broadest sense, thereby advancing children’s health outcomes and quality of life. We will achieve this through research, collaboration, and advocacy.

Identify, understand and address inequalities in oral health and wider outcomes
Design, evaluate and implement evidence-based approaches to improve children’s oral health
Explore how oral health interventions work in the ‘real world’, aiming to improve their effectiveness and implementation
Integrate oral health data into birth cohorts & connected datasets to understand and improve services for children & families
Work with children & families, and local & national partners across health, education and third sector to shape oral health policy, and advocate for the healthiest generation of children ever.

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