Atraumatic restorative treatments and oral health-related quality of life and dental anxiety in Australian Aboriginal children: A cluster-randomized trial.

Objectives: The management of early childhood caries is challenging and the impacts of its treatment on child oral health-related quality of life (COHRQoL) and dental anxiety among Australian Aboriginal children is relatively unknown. The aim of the study was to compare the impact on COHRQoL and dental anxiety after approximately 12 months among Aboriginal children treated for early childhood caries (ECC) using the Atraumatic Restorative Treatment and the Hall Technique (ART/HT: test) or standard care (control).

Methods: Consenting Aboriginal communities in the North-West of Western Australia were randomized into early (test) or delayed (control) intervention for the management of ECC.

Psychometric properties of the Child Oral-care Performance Assessment Scale.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of Child Oral-care Performance Assessment Scale (COPAS).

Methods: Items for the instrument were developed and pilot tested. This questionnaire was implemented in the Australian National Child Oral Health Study 2012-2014, whose aims included the assessment of oral care performance.

Tooth loss and general quality of life in dentate adults from Southern Brazil.

Purpose: This study aimed to estimate the association between the number of teeth and general quality of life in adults.

Methods: A population-based study was conducted with 1720 individuals aged 20-59 years residing in Florianópolis, Brazil, in 2009. Data were collected at participants' households using a structured questionnaire.

The international migration of dentists: directions for research and policy.

In 2010, the World Health Organization Global Code of Practice for International Recruitment of Health Personnel (the WHO Code) was adopted by the 193 Member States of the WHO. The WHO Code is a tool for global diplomacy, providing a policy framework to address the challenges involved in managing dentist migration, as well as improving the retention of dental personnel in source countries. The WHO Code recognizes the importance of migrant dentist data to support migration polices; minimum data on the inflows, outflows and stock of dentists are vital.

Income-based life-course models of caries in 30-year-old Australian adults.

Objectives: To assess income-based life-course models between the age of 13 and 30 years and caries in young adults.

Methods: In 1988-89, n = 7673 South Australian school children aged 13 years were sampled with n = 4604 children (60.0%) and n = 4476 parents (58.

The influence of the volume of dental treatment on change in self-reported oral health.

Objectives: To find an association between self-reported change in oral health and dental treatment volume.

Methods: Baseline data were obtained from the Tasmanian component of the National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004-06 and 12-month follow-up data from service use logbooks and mail self-complete questionnaires. The global oral health transition statement indicated change in oral health.

Social support and optimism in relation to the oral health of young adults.

Background: Psychosocial factors largely external to the individual--such as social support and those that are inherently dispositional, like optimism--may both play a role in determining oral health outcomes and serve to buffer the effect of each other.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess associations of social support and optimism on oral health.

Method: In 2005-2006, n = 1,859 persons around 30 years old were surveyed to collect data on social support, optimism, oral health-related quality of life, and caries experience.

Life events and oral-health-related quality of life among young adults.

Purpose: Life-course approaches to understanding the determinants of health have led to a greater focus on the effects of life events on health. Life events may be construed as either positive or negative, and may have differential health effects. The aims of the study were to assess the association of positive and negative life events with oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL).