OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Oral and systemic health in Singapore: Revisiting the past to define the future	43
Recent dental visits and family caregiving among individuals with dental symptoms: A nationwide cross‐sectional study in Japan	31
Changes in oral health inequalities in adults in Chile	29
Untreated dental caries among Libyan children during and after the war and in internally displaced person camps	25
The Association Between Cognitive Function and Oral Health in Home Dwellers and Nursing Home Residents: The HUNT Study	23
Social Relationships and Tooth Loss in Adults Aged 60 Years and Older: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	17
Centring anti‐oppressive justice: Re‐envisioning dentistry's social contract	16
Reflections on oral health inequalities: Theories, pathways and next steps for research priorities	15
Inequities and oral health: A behavioural sciences perspective	15
Effect of personality traits on socioeconomic inequalities in health, a population‐based study	15
Journeying towards decolonising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oral health re‐search	14
Impact of pulpectomy versus tooth extraction in children's oral health‐related quality of life: A randomized clinical trial	13
Prolonged breastfeeding, sugar consumption and dental caries at 2 years of age: A birth cohort study	13
Reliability analysis using the in‐lux examination method for dental indices in adolescents for use in epidemiological studies	13
Behavioural medicine theory‐based intervention strategies for promoting oral health	13
Parents' education and Pasifika children's oral health in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A national linked data study using Aotearoa/New Zealand's integrated data infrastructure	13
Is childhood oral health the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for poor adult general health? Findings from two New Zealand birth cohort studies	12
Maternal factors and risk of early childhood caries: A prospective cohort study	12
Changes in dental and medical visits before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic among U.S. children aged 1–17 years	12
Sociodemographic Inequalities in Oral Health‐Related Quality of Life in Older Adults: 15 Years Follow‐Up of the 1932 and 1942 Birth Cohorts in Sweden	11
Recalled body silhouette trajectories over the lifespan and oral conditions in adulthood: A cross‐sectional analysis of the Paris Prospective Study 3	10
Conceptualizing inequities and oppression in oral health research	10
Oral health inequalities and disability: Closing the gap	10
Parent's self‐reported tooth brushing and use of fluoridated toothpaste: Associations with their one‐year‐old child's preventive oral health behaviour	10
Ultra‐processed food consumption and dental caries in adolescents from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort study	10

Socioeconomic‐related inequality in dental care utilization among preschool children in China	9
Experiences of discrimination and oral health‐related quality of life among foreign‐born older Chinese Americans: Does resilience play a mediating role?	9
Caries management using silver diamine fluoride and providing domiciliary dental care for dependent older adults: A qualitative study of Swiss dentists	9
Long‐term effects of a lay health advisor intervention on immigrant children’s dental caries and maternal preventive behaviour: A randomized controlled trial	9
Assessing motivational interviewing integrity in the Toddler Oral Health Intervention study	9
Disposable and reusable instruments in dental health practice: A comparison of cost factors in a public provider organization in Queensland, Australia	9
Oral and oropharyngeal cancer screening and tobacco cessation discussions, NHANES 2011–2018	8
A Data‐Driven Approach Identifies Subtypes of Caries From Dental Charting	8
Presentation and subsequent care of dental injuries sustained by New Zealand adults	8
Change in Dental Visits Among Eligible Children Under the Impact of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule in Australia	8
Sociocultural determinants of children's oral health among immigrants in Canada	8
Efficiency of periodontal treatment to improve type 2 diabetes mellitus outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of economic evaluations	8
Edentulism and select chronic diseases among adults aged ≥45 years in China, 2011‐2018: A longitudinal study	8
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Building an understanding of Indigenous Health Workers’ role in oral health: A qualitative systematic review	8
Inequalities in dental service utilization among Thai adults from 2000 to 2017	8
The Role of Nationality in Childhood Caries in Qatar	8
Long‐term effects of a community‐based oral health intervention for young children in the Netherlands: A 5‐year follow‐up	7
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Should compromised first permanent molar teeth in children be routinely removed? A health economics analysis	7
Issue Information	7
Prevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection among oral health care workers worldwide: A meta‐analysis	7
A qualitative meta‐synthesis of carers’ perceptions of factors influencing preschool children’s oral hygiene practices—A social practices perspective	7
Inequalities by sex on remaining teeth in adults: A decomposition analysis	7
Barriers to and facilitators for creating, disseminating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating oral health policies in the WHO African region: A scoping review	7
Community and individual socioeconomic inequalities and dental caries from childhood to adolescence: A 10‐year cohort study	7
The declining affordability of dental care in New Zealand from 1978 to 2023	6
Adult oral health‐related quality of life instruments: A systematic review	6
Why Aren't Antenatal Care Providers Adopting Oral Health Guidelines? A Qualitative Exploration	6
Motivational interviewing for preventing oral morbidities in adults: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
Dental antibiotic policies, stewardship, and implementation in India: A policy document analysis	6
Influence of two caries detection strategies on the quality of life of preschool children: An analysis of secondary outcomes of a 2‐Year randomized clinical trial	6
Economic evaluation of a water fluoridation scheme in Cumbria, UK	6
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Contextual and local determinants associated with the achievement of goals in the endodontics specialty in Brazilian dental speciality centres: A multilevel analysis	6
Addressing the overlooked: Integrating oral healthcare in a geriatric care system: Insights from Singapore	6
Designing complex interventions: A description of the development of an intervention to reduce inequalities in planned dental visiting	6
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Oral health: Epidemiology and concordance in Australian children and parents	6
‘Periodontal health and disease in an older population: A 10‐year longitudinal study’	6
Periodontal disease in people with a history of psychosis: Results from the UK biobank population‐based study	5
Issue Information	5
Caries trajectories from childhood to adolescence: Analysis of data from a nationwide school dental service	5
‘You learn to smile with your eyes’, exploring the impact of enhanced personal protective equipment on primary care dental practitioners in the UK: An interpretative phenomenological study	5
Temporomandibular‐disorder‐related pain as a predictor of severe headaches	5
Caries clusters at lesion‐severity thresholds: A Sierra Leone case study	5
Does water fluoridation influence ethnic inequalities in caries in Brazilian children and adolescents?	5
Dental hygienists' scope of practice regulations and preventable non‐traumatic dental emergency department visits: A cross‐sectional study of 10 U.S. states	5
A bibliometric analysis of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology: Fifty years of publications	5

The CATFISH study: An evaluation of a water fluoridation program in Cumbria, UK	5
A Systematic Review of Dental Antibiotic Stewardship Interventions	5
Causal analyses in longitudinal observational studies in oral health: A scoping review	5
Issue Information	5
Secondary dental care quality in Brazil: What we are talking about?	5
Do Norwegian private dental practitioners with too few patients compensate for their loss of income by providing more services or by raising their fees?	5
Exploring socioeconomic inequality in caries experience in an adult Norwegian population; the HUNT4 Oral Health Study	5
Acculturation and Children's dental service utilization in the United States	5
Socio‐economic inequalities in dental pain in children: A birth cohort study	5
Association between socioeconomic status and traumatic dental injury in permanent teeth: A systematic review with meta‐analysis	5
Correction to The life cycle analysis of a dental examination: Quantifying the environmental burden of an examination in a hypothetical dental practice	5
An ethnographic study of a community dentistry network serving Latine migrant farmworkers in Vermont: Barriers and access to care during the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond	5
Inequality in access to dental services in a market‐based dental care system: A population study from Norway 1975–2018	5
Associations of socioeconomic and health factors with dental non‐attendance: A comparison of three cohorts of women	5
Socioenvironmental sugar promotion and geographical inequalities in dental health of 5‐year‐old children in England	5
Findings from the 2019 nationally representative oral health survey for adults in Singapore	5
Modelling the impact of increase in sugar prices on dental caries in India	4
Influence of case definitions on epidemiological estimates of periodontitis prevalence and its associations with smoking and OHRQoL	4
How effective and cost‐effective is water fluoridation for adults and adolescents? The LOTUS 10‐year retrospective cohort study	4
Differences in complete denture longevity and replacement in public and private dental services: A propensity score‐matched analysis of subsidised dentures in adult Australians across 20 years	4
Prevalence and socioeconomic factors associated with non‐utilization of dental care in Lebanon: A nationwide cross‐sectional survey	4
Using Andersen's behavioural model to examine individual and contextual factors associated with dental service utilization in Brazil	4
Caries lesions progression in adults: A prospective 2‐year cohort study	4
Oral cancer epidemiology in relation to inter‐country disparities in human development in south and Southeast Asia	4
Prevalence and social determinants of periodontal disease in Colombian pregnant women	4
Atraumatic restorative treatments and oral health‐related quality of life and dental anxiety in Australian Aboriginal children: A cluster‐randomized trial	4
Reconsidering economic interventions to reduce oral health inequalities	4
Differential effect of social mobility on tooth loss by race in adulthood: 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study	4
Association between early life cancers and oral healthcare utilization in the NHANES	4
Socioecological determinants of child oral health—A scoping review	4
A proposed community caries index of treatment need derived from the international caries detection and assessment system	4
Talking about cancer: Patient responses to raising awareness of oral cancer in primary dental care	4
Association between overweight/obesity and dental outcomes in early childhood: Findings from an Australian cohort study	4
Behaviour support in dentistry: A Delphi study to agree terminology in behaviour management	4
Association between sugary drinks consumption and dental caries incidence among Taiwanese schoolchildren with mixed dentition	4
Reviewer list 2024	4
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Association between acculturation, dental floss use, dental visits and unmet dental needs among Asians in the United States: Findings from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 201	4
Dental caries status and related factors among 12‐year‐old Somali school children in Hargeisa	4
Oral health inequalities/inequities: Looking back and looking forward	4
Oral health‐related stigma: Describing and defining a ubiquitous phenomenon	4
Guest editorial on the special section ‘Oral Health in China’	4