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 tooth decay. There are also marked oral health inequalities,, driven by the wider social determinants of health.

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.

Aim:

We aim to improve children’s oral health, 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.

Sub Projects

Children’s Oral Health

Background

Project Team

Alice Rigby

Amrit Chauhan

Claudia Heggie

Erin Giles

Haleema Rabeea

Kara Gray-Burrows

Prof. Peter Day

Aim:

Sub Projects

CALM – A research project investigating ways to reduce children’s fear of the dentist.

BRIGHT

Oral health and learning

SPOT-LITE Study of PhOTobiomodulation implementation for musosITis management in children

HABIT – Health visitors delivering Advice in Britain on Infant Toothbrushing

toothPASTE – Autism & Oral Health

BRUSH – The Supervised Toothbrushing Toolkit

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