Researchers: Professor A John Spencer, Dr. Loc Do, Professor Kaye Roberts-Thomson (Adelaide University)
Funding: NHMRC
Project summary: Researchers from the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (ARCPOH) in conjunction with the West Australian Dental Health Service are participating in a National Child Oral Health Survey. The aims are to investigate the impact of dental disease in child populations in Australia. The purpose of the study is to inform policy makers and dental service providers at the national and state/territory level in shaping effective dental service delivery so as to improve child oral health. The project will provide a combination of an oral epidemiological examination and a social survey of dental use, service-mix received, and other determinants of oral health in line with current epidemiological studies and to link these data with the underlying variation in dental service delivery systems.
Progress: Ongoing