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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

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	59
Socioeconomic status and oral health‐related quality of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	57
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?	34
Top 100 most‐cited papers in core dental public health journals: bibliometric analysis	31
Impact of COVID‐19 on the provision of paediatric dental care: Analysis of the Australian Child Dental Benefits Schedule	30
Adult oral health‐related quality of life instruments: A systematic review	26
Associations and risk factors for dental trauma: A systematic review of systematic reviews	23
Association between dental pain and oral health‐related quality of life in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	23
Temporomandibular disorder subtypes, emotional distress, impaired sleep, and oral health‐related quality of life in Asian patients	20
Poor parenting behaviours and dental caries experience in 6‐ To 7‐year‐old children	19
Health promotion interventions to improve oral health of adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	19
Intersectionality, racial discrimination and oral health in Australia	19
Adopting the COM‐B model and TDF framework in oral and dental research: A narrative review	19
Context and the evidence‐based paradigm: The potential for participatory research and systems thinking in oral health	19
Dentist‐patient relationships and oral health impact in Australian adults	18
Motivational interviewing for preventing early childhood caries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	18
Disentangling a web of causation: An ethnographic study of interlinked patient barriers to planned dental visiting, and strategies to overcome them	16
What is the most accurate method for detecting caries lesions? A systematic review	15
Perceived discrimination in health services and preventive dental attendance in Brazilian adults	15
Are trust and satisfaction similar in dental care settings?	15
Racial inequities in tooth loss among older Brazilian adults: A decomposition analysis	15
The life cycle analysis of a dental examination: Quantifying the environmental burden of an examination in a hypothetical dental practice	13
Reflections on oral health inequalities: Theories, pathways and next steps for research priorities	13
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
Atraumatic restorative treatments improve child oral health‐related quality of life: A noninferiority randomized controlled trial	12
Development and Validation of the Oral Health Values Scale	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
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
Parental incarceration and children's oral health in the United States: Findings from the 2016‐2018 National Survey of Children's Health	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
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
Measuring and decomposing socioeconomic‐related inequality in the use of oral health services among Chinese adults	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
Dental anxiety and caries experience from late childhood through adolescence to early adulthood	9
Does remaining teeth and dental prosthesis associate with social isolation? A six‐year longitudinal study from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES)	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
Barriers and facilitators to dental care among culturally and linguistically diverse carers: A mixed‐methods systematic review	8
The association between food insecurity and dental caries among U.S. adults: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey	8
Oral health and happiness in adolescents: A cohort study	8
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
Evaluation of a community‐based early childhood caries (ECC) intervention in Cambodia	8
The impact of different determinants on the dental caries experience of children living in Australia rural and urban areas	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
Improving oral health in nursing home residents: A cluster randomized trial of a shared oral care intervention	8
Children’s oral health‐related behaviours and early childhood caries: A latent class analysis	8
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on hospitalizations for oral and oropharyngeal cancer in Brazil	7
Influence of case definitions on epidemiological estimates of periodontitis prevalence and its associations with smoking and OHRQoL	7
Measuring oral health—How can the International Classification of Functioning help?	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
From micro to macro: Structural determinants and oral health	7
A longitudinal study of the impact of change in socioeconomic status on dental caries in the permanent dentition of Swedish children and adolescents	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
Association between sugary drinks consumption and dental caries incidence among Taiwanese schoolchildren with mixed dentition	7
Secondary dental care quality in Brazil: What we are talking about?	7
Caries experience among adults in core Sámi areas of Northern Norway	6
User satisfaction with Dental Specialty Centers in Brazil: Proposal of satisfaction index and associated factors	6
Head and neck cancer in Cali, Colombia: Population‐based study	6

Overtreatment as an ethical dilemma in Australian private dentistry: A qualitative exploration	6
The FiCTION trial: Child oral health‐related quality of life and dental anxiety across three treatment strategies for managing caries in young children	6
Advances and weaknesses of the work process of the oral cancer care network in Brazil: A latent class transition analysis	6
Perceived influences on smoking behaviour and perceptions of dentist‐delivered smoking cessation advice: A qualitative interview study	6
Changes and determinants of unmet oral health treatment need	6
Can the school environment influence oral health–related behaviours? A multilevel analysis of the Brazilian National Adolescent School‐Based Health Survey 2015	6
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	6
Oral health and academic performance or absenteeism: Findings from a University in Southern Brazil	6
Critically engaging vulnerability: Rethinking oral health with vulnerabilized populations	6
Validation of the Chinese version of the Short‐Form Health Literacy in Dentistry (HeLD) scale	6
Health ombudsman and racial inequities in Dental Specialities Centers performance in Brazil: A multilevel analysis	6
Does water fluoridation influence ethnic inequalities in caries in Brazilian children and adolescents?	6
Maternal caries experience influences offspring’s early childhood caries—a birth cohort study	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	5
Use of dental services by disability status in Brazil in 2013	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
Building an understanding of Indigenous Health Workers’ role in oral health: A qualitative systematic review	5
Justification for the 2017 periodontitis classification in the light of the Checklist for Modifying Disease Definitions: A narrative review	5
Fidelity of motivational interviewing with families in high‐caries‐risk children	5
Using behaviour change science to deliver oral health practice: A commentary	5
Periodontal disease in people with a history of psychosis: Results from the UK biobank population‐based study	5
A scoping review of Table 2 fallacy in the oral health literature	5
Gender inequities in dental research publications: Findings from 20 years	5
Determining the factors associated with oral health‐related quality of life in Chinese elders: Findings from the fourth national survey	5
Access to dental insurance and oral health inequities in the United States	5
Prevalence of toothache in Chinese adults aged 65 years and above	5
High sugar intake from sugar‐sweetened beverages is associated with prevalence of untreated decay in US adults: NHANES 2013–2016	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
Socioeconomic‐related inequality in dental care utilization among preschool children in China	5
Social support and dental caries experience: Findings from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sociocultural Ancillary Study	4
Evolution and development of methodologies in social and behavioural science research in relation to oral health	4
Role of management and human resource factors on matrix support in secondary oral health care in Brazil	4
Prevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection among oral health care workers worldwide: A meta‐analysis	4
Social practice theory: An innovative approach to considering preschool children’s poor oral health	4
What is it about carer‐led oral hygiene interventions for people with intellectual disabilities that work and why? A realist review	4
Social capital and oral health in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	4
Disparities in spatial accessibility to public dental services relative to estimated need for oral health care among refugee populations in Victoria	4
The Necessity of qualitative research for advancing oral health	4
Are third molars associated with orofacial pain? Findings from the SHIP study	4
Water fluoridation, dental caries and parental ratings of child oral health	4
Association between primary heath care and dental service use among supportive housing tenants with behavioral health conditions	4
Emergency department use for nontraumatic dental conditions among children and adolescents: NEDS 2014‐2015	4
Respiratory symptoms of exposure to substances in the workplace among Bulgarian dentists	4
Is the association between social support and oral health modified by household income? Findings from a national study of adults in Australia	4
Effect of oral health literacy on self‐reported tooth loss: A multiple mediation analysis	4
Causal inference in dentistry: Time to move forward	4
National patterns in paediatric hospital admissions for dental extractions in England	4
Income‐based inequalities in dental service utilization: A multiple mediation analysis	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
Explaining the concept of oral health literacy: Findings from an exploratory study	4
A scoping review of pharmacy participation in dental and oral health care	4