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Staff at ARCPOH are involved in numerous ongoing research projects. These projects reflect varying oral health and epidemiological perspectives and applied research on the provision of dental health services and revolve around the distribution and determinants of oral health, burden and impact of oral disease, testing the efficacy/effectiveness of population oral health interventions, oral health services and labour force research, and oral health policy analysis.

DISTRIBUTION AND DETERMINANTS OF ORAL HEALTH

• Child Dental Health Survey
• Adult Dental Programs Survey
• Indigenous Oral Health
• Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study – Wave 3 (NHMRC)
• An SA community-owned Indigenous oral health promotion initiative (AIATSIS)
• Caries Risk Assessment for South Australian Children (The University of Adelaide Scholarship and ADRF grant)
• Fluoride exposure, dental fluorosis and caries among South Australian children (Adelaide International Scholarship, The University of Adelaide)
• A cognitive theory of the etiology of fear
• Child Fluoride Study Mark II (NHMRC)
• The South Australian Dental Longitudinal Study (NHMRC)
• Social determinants of oral health (University of Adelaide Scholarship; ADRF)
• Explaining social inequality in population oral health using a multilevel approach (NHMRC)
• Life course influences on dental caries in 5-year-olds
• Juvenile justice – oral health of juveniles in detention
• Determinants of oral health of adults entering the 4th decade of life (NHMRC)
• National Survey of Adult Oral Health (NHMRC, AIHW, ADA, CDC, Colgate, States/Territories)
• A life course epidemiological approach to understanding oral health inequalities (NHMRC Project Grant)
• Periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease (NHMRC)
• Dentine sensitivity in Australia
• Oral care for adults with physical and intellectual disability

BURDEN AND IMPACT OF ORAL DISEASE

• Burden of Oral Disease (ADRF; AU Small Grant)
• Monitoring population periodontal disease in health interview surveys
• Validation of a Vietnamese version of the OHIP (ADRF)
• Burden of oral diseases and disorders in Australia (University of Adelaide Scholarship)
• Nutritional intake and dentition status (ADRF)
• The impact of dental services on quality of life (Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship)

TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POPULATION ORAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

• Effectiveness of a pre-school dental enrolment program in preventing childhood caries (Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation of SA Inc.)
• A best-practice oral health model for Australian residential care (NHMRC)
• Strong teeth for little kids (Menzies)
• Strong teeth project (NHMRC) – Fluoridation of water supplies in remote Indigenous communities in the NT
• Remote Indigenous oral health – testing a community-based model for oral health promotion (NHMRC SRDC)
• Health Promotion and Early Childhood Caries (ADRF; Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation)
• The Dental Practice Education Research Unit
• Caries risk testing (NHMRC – SRDC)

ORAL HEALTH SERVICES AND LABOUR FORCE RESEARCH

• National Dental Telephone Interview Survey and associated activities
• National Dental Labour Force Data Collections
• The Longitudinal Study of Dentists’ Practice Activity
• Productivity analyses of private dental services in Australia
• Hospitals Contribution Fund (HCF) Dental Satisfaction Survey 2005
• The impact of declining tooth loss on oral health status and dental care utilisation (NHMRC)
• Risk Assessment and Oral Health Outcomes of a Child Dental Service (NHMRC; Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation)
• A Relative Needs Index – theoretical model validation and implementation (SADS and Division of Health Sciences Postgraduate Scholarship)
• Public dental service utilisation in South Australia (NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship)
• SA Dental Service Aged Care Project
• Development of treatment choice factors over time (ADRF)
• Job satisfaction survey of the oral health labour force in Australia (ADRF)
• Evaluating profile changes in 1st year BDS students, Adelaide Dental School, over 10-year period
• Study of private subsidisation of dental care in Australia (SOPS) (ADRF)

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