Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Article	Citations
Global application of oral disease prevention and health promotion as measured 10 years after the 2007 World Health Assembly statement on oral health	58
Socioeconomic status and oral health‐related quality of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	56
Pathways between parental and individual determinants of dental caries and dental visit behaviours among children: Validation of a new conceptual model	38
What is intersectionality and why is it important in oral health research?	32
Top 100 most‐cited papers in core dental public health journals: bibliometric analysis	29
Impact of COVID‐19 on the provision of paediatric dental care: Analysis of the Australian Child Dental Benefits Schedule	29
Adult oral health‐related quality of life instruments: A systematic review	26
Association between dental pain and oral health‐related quality of life in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	23
Associations and risk factors for dental trauma: A systematic review of systematic reviews	22
Poor parenting behaviours and dental caries experience in 6‐ To 7‐year‐old children	19
Temporomandibular disorder subtypes, emotional distress, impaired sleep, and oral health‐related quality of life in Asian patients	19
Adopting the COM‐B model and TDF framework in oral and dental research: A narrative review	18
Health promotion interventions to improve oral health of adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	18
Context and the evidence‐based paradigm: The potential for participatory research and systems thinking in oral health	18
Intersectionality, racial discrimination and oral health in Australia	17
Motivational interviewing for preventing early childhood caries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	17
Dentist‐patient relationships and oral health impact in Australian adults	17
Disentangling a web of causation: An ethnographic study of interlinked patient barriers to planned dental visiting, and strategies to overcome them	16
Are trust and satisfaction similar in dental care settings?	15
Racial inequities in tooth loss among older Brazilian adults: A decomposition analysis	14
What is the most accurate method for detecting caries lesions? A systematic review	14
The life cycle analysis of a dental examination: Quantifying the environmental burden of an examination in a hypothetical dental practice	13
Perceived discrimination in health services and preventive dental attendance in Brazilian adults	13
Atraumatic restorative treatments improve child oral health‐related quality of life: A noninferiority randomized controlled trial	12
Planning the oral health workforce: Time for innovation	12

Insurance coverage expansion and inequalities in unmet oral healthcare needs in Korea: Repeated cross‐sectional analysis, 2007‐2015	12
Social isolation, loneliness and accelerated tooth loss among Chinese older adults: A longitudinal study	12
Reflections on oral health inequalities: Theories, pathways and next steps for research priorities	12
Social capital and self‐reported oral health at baseline of the brazilian longitudinal study of aging	11
Association between disability status and dental attendance in Australia—A population‐based study	11
Fluoridation cessation and children’s dental caries: A 7‐year follow‐up evaluation of Grade 2 schoolchildren in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada	11
Collider bias in the association of periodontitis and carotid intima‐media thickness	11
Contextual determinants for use of dental services according to different healthcare financing systems: Andersen's model	11
Preparing for attack and recovering from battle: Understanding child sexual abuse survivors' experiences of dental treatment	11
The oral health of refugees: Issues and challenges arising from a case series analysis	10
Changes in dental caries and sugar intake before and during the conflict in Libya: A natural experiment	10
Parental incarceration and children's oral health in the United States: Findings from the 2016‐2018 National Survey of Children's Health	10
Development and Validation of the Oral Health Values Scale	10
Two decades of socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of untreated dental caries in early childhood: Results from three birth cohorts in southern Brazil	10
Understanding oral health help‐seeking among Middle Eastern refugees and asylum seekers in Australia: An exploratory study	10
Measuring and decomposing socioeconomic‐related inequality in the use of oral health services among Chinese adults	9
Is toothbrushing behaviour habitual? Cues, context, motivators and patient narratives	9
Oral health and Obesity in Brazilian elders: A longitudinal study	9
Early‐life course factors and oral health among young Norwegian adults	9
Age, period and cohort trends in oral health status in South Korean adults	9
Dental anxiety and caries experience from late childhood through adolescence to early adulthood	9
Periodontitis and risk of immune‐mediated systemic conditions: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	9
Prevalence of and factors associated with unmet dental need among the US adult population in 2016	9
Racial inequalities in public dental service utilization: Exploring individual and contextual determinants among middle‐aged Brazilian adults	8
Effect of interdental cleaning devices on proximal caries	8
Theoretical and methodological approaches in designing, developing, and delivering interventions for oral health behaviour change	8
The association between food insecurity and dental caries among U.S. adults: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey	8
Does remaining teeth and dental prosthesis associate with social isolation? A six‐year longitudinal study from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES)	8
Determinants of dental prosthetic treatment need: A birth cohort study	8
Forecasting future dental health expenditures: Development of a framework using data from 32 OECD countries	8
Evaluation of a community‐based early childhood caries (ECC) intervention in Cambodia	8
Changes in income‐related inequalities in oral health status in Ontario, Canada	8
Social story‐based oral health promotion for preschool children with special healthcare needs: A 24‐month randomized controlled trial	8
Dental caries, periodontal disease and restorative dental care among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous groups in Brazil: A descriptive study	8
Children’s oral health‐related behaviours and early childhood caries: A latent class analysis	8
The impact of different determinants on the dental caries experience of children living in Australia rural and urban areas	7
Measuring oral health—How can the International Classification of Functioning help?	7
Changes in dental and medical visits before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic among U.S. children aged 1–17 years	7
Top 100 most‐cited oral health‐related quality of life papers: Bibliometric analysis	7
The impact of changing provider remuneration on clinical activity and quality of care: Evaluation of a pilot NHS contract in Northern Ireland	7
From micro to macro: Structural determinants and oral health	7
Barriers and facilitators to dental care among culturally and linguistically diverse carers: A mixed‐methods systematic review	7
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on hospitalizations for oral and oropharyngeal cancer in Brazil	7
Oral health and happiness in adolescents: A cohort study	7
Association between sugary drinks consumption and dental caries incidence among Taiwanese schoolchildren with mixed dentition	7
Conceptualizing inequities and oppression in oral health research	7
The vicious cycle of dental fear at age 31 in a birth cohort in Southern Brazil	7
The FiCTION trial: Child oral health‐related quality of life and dental anxiety across three treatment strategies for managing caries in young children	6
User satisfaction with Dental Specialty Centers in Brazil: Proposal of satisfaction index and associated factors	6
Perceived influences on smoking behaviour and perceptions of dentist‐delivered smoking cessation advice: A qualitative interview study	6

Head and neck cancer in Cali, Colombia: Population‐based study	6
Health ombudsman and racial inequities in Dental Specialities Centers performance in Brazil: A multilevel analysis	6
A longitudinal study of the impact of change in socioeconomic status on dental caries in the permanent dentition of Swedish children and adolescents	6
Caries experience among adults in core Sámi areas of Northern Norway	6
Validation of the Chinese version of the Short‐Form Health Literacy in Dentistry (HeLD) scale	6
Changes and determinants of unmet oral health treatment need	6
Overtreatment as an ethical dilemma in Australian private dentistry: A qualitative exploration	6
Oral health and academic performance or absenteeism: Findings from a University in Southern Brazil	6
Does water fluoridation influence ethnic inequalities in caries in Brazilian children and adolescents?	6
Critically engaging vulnerability: Rethinking oral health with vulnerabilized populations	6
Advances and weaknesses of the work process of the oral cancer care network in Brazil: A latent class transition analysis	6
Influence of case definitions on epidemiological estimates of periodontitis prevalence and its associations with smoking and OHRQoL	6
Improving oral health in nursing home residents: A cluster randomized trial of a shared oral care intervention	6
Secondary dental care quality in Brazil: What we are talking about?	6
High sugar intake from sugar‐sweetened beverages is associated with prevalence of untreated decay in US adults: NHANES 2013–2016	5
The association of maternal folic acid supplementation and prenatal folate and vitamin B12 concentrations with child dental development	5
A scoping review of cost‐effectiveness analyses of school‐based interventions for caries	5
Can the school environment influence oral health–related behaviours? A multilevel analysis of the Brazilian National Adolescent School‐Based Health Survey 2015	5
Fidelity of motivational interviewing with families in high‐caries‐risk children	5
A scoping review of Table 2 fallacy in the oral health literature	5
Determining the factors associated with oral health‐related quality of life in Chinese elders: Findings from the fourth national survey	5
Socioeconomic‐related inequality in dental care utilization among preschool children in China	5
Are there more women in the dentist workforce? Using an intersectionality lens to explore the feminization of the dentist workforce in the UK and US	5
Periodontal disease in people with a history of psychosis: Results from the UK biobank population‐based study	5
Association between serum arsenic and oral cancer risk: A case‐control study in southeast China	5
Difference of income inequalities of denture use by co‐payment rates: A JAGES cross‐sectional study	5
Building an understanding of Indigenous Health Workers’ role in oral health: A qualitative systematic review	5
The independent and joint contribution of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on oral health indicators	5
Dental caries and psychosocial factors: Testing a conceptual model in adolescents	4
Are third molars associated with orofacial pain? Findings from the SHIP study	4
Access to dental insurance and oral health inequities in the United States	4
Justification for the 2017 periodontitis classification in the light of the Checklist for Modifying Disease Definitions: A narrative review	4
Emergency department use for nontraumatic dental conditions among children and adolescents: NEDS 2014‐2015	4
Social capital and oral health in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	4
Evolution and development of methodologies in social and behavioural science research in relation to oral health	4
Disparities in spatial accessibility to public dental services relative to estimated need for oral health care among refugee populations in Victoria	4
National patterns in paediatric hospital admissions for dental extractions in England	4
Water fluoridation, dental caries and parental ratings of child oral health	4
Maternal caries experience influences offspring’s early childhood caries—a birth cohort study	4
Do Norwegian private dental practitioners with too few patients compensate for their loss of income by providing more services or by raising their fees?	4
Prevalence of toothache in Chinese adults aged 65 years and above	4
Is the association between social support and oral health modified by household income? Findings from a national study of adults in Australia	4
Social support and dental caries experience: Findings from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sociocultural Ancillary Study	4
Effect of oral health literacy on self‐reported tooth loss: A multiple mediation analysis	4
Role of management and human resource factors on matrix support in secondary oral health care in Brazil	4
Social practice theory: An innovative approach to considering preschool children’s poor oral health	4
Association between primary heath care and dental service use among supportive housing tenants with behavioral health conditions	4
Using behaviour change science to deliver oral health practice: A commentary	4
Respiratory symptoms of exposure to substances in the workplace among Bulgarian dentists	4
A scoping review of pharmacy participation in dental and oral health care	4
Use of dental services by disability status in Brazil in 2013	4
Gender inequities in dental research publications: Findings from 20 years	3
Influence of maternal postpartum depression on children’s toothbrushing frequency	3
De‐implementing opioid prescribing in a dental group practice: Lessons learned	3
Child oral health and preventive dental service access among children with intellectual disabilities, autism and other educational additional support needs: A population‐based record linkage cohort st	3
Socio‐economic inequalities in dental pain in children: A birth cohort study	3
A randomized controlled trial of 6‐month dental home visits on 24‐month caries incidence in preschool children	3
Inequality in access to dental services in a market‐based dental care system: A population study from Norway 1975–2018	3
Contextual and local determinants associated with the achievement of goals in the endodontics specialty in Brazilian dental speciality centres: A multilevel analysis	3
Changes in oral health inequalities in adults in Chile	3
Development and validation of the parenting and child tooth brushing assessment questionnaire	3
Temporomandibular‐disorder‐related pain as a predictor of severe headaches	3
Causal inference in dentistry: Time to move forward	3
Edentulism and select chronic diseases among adults aged ≥45 years in China, 2011‐2018: A longitudinal study	3
Improving access of young adults with experience of homelessness to primary care dental services in the UK: A realist synthesis	3
The role of oral health‐related quality of life in the association between dental caries and height, weight and BMI among children in Bangladesh	3
Polypharmacy and saliva volumes in the northeast of Germany – The Study of Health in Pomerania	3
UK general population willingness to pay for scale and polish, and detailed and personalized oral hygiene advice	3
Income‐based inequalities in dental service utilization: A multiple mediation analysis	3
Economic cost of managing patients with oral potentially malignant disorders in Sri Lanka	3
Acculturation and dental sealant use among US children	3
A scoping review of interventions to improve oral health in prison settings	3
What is it about carer‐led oral hygiene interventions for people with intellectual disabilities that work and why? A realist review	3
Household food insecurity and dental caries in Korean adults	3
Parenting stress as a mediator in the oral health of children and adolescents: A stress process model	3
What influences the provision and reception of oral health education? A narrative review of the literature	3
Explaining the concept of oral health literacy: Findings from an exploratory study	3
The Necessity of qualitative research for advancing oral health	3
Prevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection among oral health care workers worldwide: A meta‐analysis	3
Geographical and socioeconomic inequalities in dental attendance among children in Peru: Findings from the Demographic and Family Health Survey 2017	3

Experiences of discrimination and oral health‐related quality of life among foreign‐born older Chinese Americans: Does resilience play a mediating role?	3
Caries Risk Assessment and Referral Tool (CRA‐RT)—A novel risk scoring system for early childhood caries in community settings	3
Maternal factors and risk of early childhood caries: A prospective cohort study	3
Caries experience among children born after a complicated pregnancy	3
E‐cigarette, cannabis and combustible tobacco use: associations with xerostomia among California adolescents	3
Developing an early childhood oral health impact–specific health‐state classification system for a new preference‐based instrument, the ECOHIS‐4D	3
Adherence to and acceptability of three alcohol‐free, antiseptic oral rinses: A community‐based pilot randomized controlled trial among pregnant women in rural Nepal	3
Food processing and its association with dental caries: Data from NHANES 2011‐2014	3
Community health worker intervention to improve tooth brushing in young children: Results from a cluster randomized controlled trial	3
Ten‐year changes in children’s oral health disparities: Findings from the 3rd and 4th oral health surveys in Beijing, China	3
Diet and root surface caries in a cohort of older Japanese	3
Association between periodontal disease and oral cancer screening among US adults: NHANES 2011‐2014	3
Changes in gingivitis and protective factors among adults: A 4‐year prospective population‐based study	3
Oral health inequalities—Developments in research, policy and practice over the last 50 years	2
Development of the Oral Health Literacy Profile (OHLP)—Psychometric properties of the oral health and dental health system knowledge scales	2
Using Andersen's behavioural model to examine individual and contextual factors associated with dental service utilization in Brazil	2
Dental sealants and restorative treatment for first molars among Medicaid enrollees	2
Prevalence of traumatic dental injuries in emergency dental services: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	2
Effects of universal oral healthcare coverage in an adult population: A long‐term nationwide natural experiment	2
Longitudinal evaluation of determinants of the clinical consequences of untreated dental caries in early childhood	2
Cost‐effectiveness and efficacy of fluoride varnish for caries prevention in South African children: A cluster‐randomized controlled community trial	2
Evaluating childsmile, Scotland's National Oral Health Improvement Programme for children	2
Access to oral health care for undocumented migrants: Perspectives of actors involved in a voluntary dental network in the Netherlands	2
Factors associated with self‐perceived oral health in different age groups	2
Association between dental caries and molar‐incisor hypomineralisation in first permanent molars: A hierarchical model	2
Investigation into the enablers and barriers of career satisfaction among Australian oral health therapists	2
Labels and descriptions of dental behaviour support techniques: A scoping review of clinical practice guidelines	2
Development of patient‐reported outcome measures of children’s oral health aesthetics	2
Impacts of the COVID‐19 epidemic on the department of stomatology in a tertiary hospital: A case study in the General Hospital of the Central Theater Command, Wuhan, China	2
Long‐term effects of a lay health advisor intervention on immigrant children’s dental caries and maternal preventive behaviour: A randomized controlled trial	2
The role of dentist supply, need for care and long‐term continuity in Health Resources and Services Administration‐funded health centres in the United States	2
Behavioural medicine theory‐based intervention strategies for promoting oral health	2
Behavioural and cognitive‐behavioural theories in oral health research: Current state and future directions	2
Ultra‐processed food consumption and dental caries in adolescents from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort study	2
Oral health care for people with disabilities in Brazil: Transition from the specialized dental services between 2014 and 2018	2
User satisfaction with the secondary dental care services: Is there an association between structure and work process?	2
The mediating role of social capital in socioeconomic inequalities of oral health behaviours among Brazilian older adults	2
Prenatal tobacco and postbirth second‐hand smoke exposure and dental caries in children	2
Caesarean delivery and early childhood caries: Estimation with marginal structural models in Brazilian pre‐schoolers	2
Socioecological determinants of child oral health—A scoping review	2
How do dental practitioners, educators and students diagnose and manage caries risk and caries lesions? A COM‐B analysis	2
Behavioural and social oral health intervention research: Looking to the future	2
Factors associated with the waiting time for access to specialized oral healthcare services in Brazil	2
Effect of personality traits on socioeconomic inequalities in health, a population‐based study	2
A qualitative study of dental professionals' and patients' knowledge and perceptions of the impact of periodontal disease on systemic health and quality of life	2
Pay‐for‐performance and dental procedures: A longitudinal analysis of the Brazilian Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality of Dental Specialities Centres	2
The influence of periodontitis case definition on the association between periodontal disease and glycaemic status	2
The effectiveness of medical nurses in treating children with silver diamine fluoride in a school‐based caries prevention program	2
Is grandparents' social class associated with adult grandchildren's oral health? Analysis of two British cohorts	2
Outreach dental care program for older adults using residential care or day care services in Hong Kong: A cohort study	2
Fluoride hesitancy: A mixed methods study on decision‐making about forms of fluoride	1
Methods to madness: The utility of complex systems science in a mad, mad world	1
Application of multilevel models for predicting pain following root canal treatment	1
Development and validation of a scale to assess Feeding at Sleep Time (FeAST) among infants and toddlers	1
Short‐term effects of reduced cost sharing on childhood dental care utilization and dental caries prevention in Japan	1
Dynamics in oral health‐related factors of Indigenous Australian children: A network analysis of a randomized controlled trial	1
Is childhood oral health the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for poor adult general health? Findings from two New Zealand birth cohort studies	1
Contextual and individual determinants of the need for endodontic treatment in adults in Brazil: A multilevel analysis	1
Dental hygienists' scope of practice regulations and preventable non‐traumatic dental emergency department visits: A cross‐sectional study of 10 U.S. states	1
Cost‐effectiveness and estimated net monetary benefits of a fluoride varnish application program during well‐child visits by 9‐ to 30‐month‐old children in three areas of Thailand	1
An examination of the risk of periodontitis for nonfatal cardiovascular diseases on the basis of a large insurance claims database	1
Recency of immigration and utilization of dental care services in Canada	1
Dental care utilization among persons with Parkinson's disease in Denmark	1
Disposable and reusable instruments in dental health practice: A comparison of cost factors in a public provider organization in Queensland, Australia	1
Periodontal health predicts self‐rated general health: A time‐lagged cohort study	1
Pairwise approach for analysis and reporting of child's free sugars intake from a birth cohort study	1
Harnessing the behavioral and social sciences to promote oral health: Where do we go from here?	1
The Children’s Health and Maintenance Program (CHAMP): An innovative community outreach oral health promotion program: A randomized trial	1
How to use mixed methods in oral health research	1
Does staff‐assessed care quality predict early failure of dental fillings? A prospective study	1
Associations of socioeconomic and health factors with dental non‐attendance: A comparison of three cohorts of women	1
Education‐related inequalities in oral health among older adults: Comparing Singapore and Japan	1
The effect of education on dental service utilization patterns in different sectors: A multiple mediation analysis	1
Presentation and subsequent care of dental injuries sustained by New Zealand adults	1
Oral health promotion through health‐promoting schools in developing countries: A scoping review	1
Decline in dental caries experience among schoolchildren in Taiwan, 2012–2020	1
Rigorous theory‐based intervention research is the bold action needed to address oral health disparities and inequities	1
Atraumatic restorative treatments and oral health‐related quality of life and dental anxiety in Australian Aboriginal children: A cluster‐randomized trial	1
Inequalities in dental service utilization among Thai adults from 2000 to 2017	1
Development and validation of a new short form of the self‐management ability questionnaire for patients with chronic periodontitis	1
Parent's self‐reported tooth brushing and use of fluoridated toothpaste: Associations with their one‐year‐old child's preventive oral health behaviour	1
Socio‐demographic and familial factors associated with hospital admissions and repeat admission for dental caries in early childhood: A population‐based study	1
Examining the association between cancer history in early life and dental care utilization	1
Radiographic assessment of proximal surface carious lesion progression in Chilean young adults	1
Effectiveness of school‐based strategies to prevent tooth decay in Filipino children: A cluster‐randomized trial	1
Perceived experiences of racism linked to dental fear and anxiety among Black women	1
Challenges in operationalizing conceptual models in aetiological research	1
The intersections of socioeconomic position, gender, race/ethnicity and nationality in relation to oral conditions among American adults	1
Trends in social inequalities in early childhood caries using population‐based clinical data	1
Factors associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts by Australian dental practitioners	1
Centring anti‐oppressive justice: Re‐envisioning dentistry's social contract	1
Home ownership, income and oral health of children in Australia—A population‐based study	1
Assessing inequities in unmet oral care needs among adults in Sweden: An intersectional approach	1
Talking about cancer: Patient responses to raising awareness of oral cancer in primary dental care	1
Attrition of dental therapists in South Africa—A 42‐year review	1