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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Socioeconomic status and oral health‐related quality of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	66
Impact of COVID‐19 on the provision of paediatric dental care: Analysis of the Australian Child Dental Benefits Schedule	33
Adult oral health‐related quality of life instruments: A systematic review	32
Temporomandibular disorder subtypes, emotional distress, impaired sleep, and oral health‐related quality of life in Asian patients	25
Adopting the COM‐B model and TDF framework in oral and dental research: A narrative review	23
What is the most accurate method for detecting caries lesions? A systematic review	18
Periodontitis and risk of immune‐mediated systemic conditions: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	16
Planning the oral health workforce: Time for innovation	16
Social isolation, loneliness and accelerated tooth loss among Chinese older adults: A longitudinal study	15
The life cycle analysis of a dental examination: Quantifying the environmental burden of an examination in a hypothetical dental practice	15
Two decades of socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of untreated dental caries in early childhood: Results from three birth cohorts in southern Brazil	13
Prevalence of and factors associated with unmet dental need among the US adult population in 2016	13
Fluoridation cessation and children’s dental caries: A 7‐year follow‐up evaluation of Grade 2 schoolchildren in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada	12
Theoretical and methodological approaches in designing, developing, and delivering interventions for oral health behaviour change	12
Determinants of dental prosthetic treatment need: A birth cohort study	12
Development and Validation of the Oral Health Values Scale	12
Does remaining teeth and dental prosthesis associate with social isolation? A six‐year longitudinal study from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES)	12
Social capital and self‐reported oral health at baseline of the brazilian longitudinal study of aging	12
Insurance coverage expansion and inequalities in unmet oral healthcare needs in Korea: Repeated cross‐sectional analysis, 2007‐2015	12
Forecasting future dental health expenditures: Development of a framework using data from 32 OECD countries	11
Top 100 most‐cited oral health‐related quality of life papers: Bibliometric analysis	11
Parental incarceration and children's oral health in the United States: Findings from the 2016‐2018 National Survey of Children's Health	11
Influence of case definitions on epidemiological estimates of periodontitis prevalence and its associations with smoking and OHRQoL	10
Contextual determinants for use of dental services according to different healthcare financing systems: Andersen's model	10
Is toothbrushing behaviour habitual? Cues, context, motivators and patient narratives	9

Children’s oral health‐related behaviours and early childhood caries: A latent class analysis	9
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	9
Effect of interdental cleaning devices on proximal caries	9
Changes in dental and medical visits before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic among U.S. children aged 1–17 years	9
Socio‐economic inequalities in dental pain in children: A birth cohort study	9
Oral health and happiness in adolescents: A cohort study	9
Improving oral health in nursing home residents: A cluster randomized trial of a shared oral care intervention	9
The association between food insecurity and dental caries among U.S. adults: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey	9
Periodontal disease in people with a history of psychosis: Results from the UK biobank population‐based study	8
Validation of the Chinese version of the Short‐Form Health Literacy in Dentistry (HeLD) scale	8
Overtreatment as an ethical dilemma in Australian private dentistry: A qualitative exploration	8
Justification for the 2017 periodontitis classification in the light of the Checklist for Modifying Disease Definitions: A narrative review	8
Evaluation of a community‐based early childhood caries (ECC) intervention in Cambodia	8
E‐cigarette, cannabis and combustible tobacco use: associations with xerostomia among California adolescents	8
Advances and weaknesses of the work process of the oral cancer care network in Brazil: A latent class transition analysis	8
Association between sugary drinks consumption and dental caries incidence among Taiwanese schoolchildren with mixed dentition	8
Socioeconomic‐related inequality in dental care utilization among preschool children in China	8
Maternal factors and risk of early childhood caries: A prospective cohort study	8
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on hospitalizations for oral and oropharyngeal cancer in Brazil	8
Critically engaging vulnerability: Rethinking oral health with vulnerabilized populations	8
The impact of different determinants on the dental caries experience of children living in Australia rural and urban areas	8
From micro to macro: Structural determinants and oral health	8
Measuring oral health—How can the International Classification of Functioning help?	8
Barriers and facilitators to dental care among culturally and linguistically diverse carers: A mixed‐methods systematic review	8
Do Norwegian private dental practitioners with too few patients compensate for their loss of income by providing more services or by raising their fees?	7
Accessto dental insurance and oral health inequities in the United States	7
Caries experience among adults in core Sámi areas of Northern Norway	7
Head and neck cancer in Cali, Colombia: Population‐based study	7
The vicious cycle of dental fear at age 31 in a birth cohort in Southern Brazil	7
Secondary dental care quality in Brazil: What we are talking about?	7
Association between serum arsenic and oral cancer risk: A case‐control study in southeast China	7
Building an understanding of Indigenous Health Workers’ role in oral health: A qualitative systematic review	7
Conceptualizing inequities and oppression in oral health research	7
Income‐based inequalities in dental service utilization: A multiple mediation analysis	7
User satisfaction with Dental Specialty Centers in Brazil: Proposal of satisfaction index and associated factors	7
Gender inequities in dental research publications: Findings from 20 years	7
Does water fluoridation influence ethnic inequalities in caries in Brazilian children and adolescents?	7
Dental caries and psychosocial factors: Testing a conceptual model in adolescents	6
Oral health and academic performance or absenteeism: Findings from a University in Southern Brazil	6
A scoping review of Table 2 fallacy in the oral health literature	6
Food processing and its association with dental caries: Data from NHANES 2011‐2014	6
Inequality in access to dental services in a market‐based dental care system: A population study from Norway 1975–2018	6
The effectiveness of medical nurses in treating children with silver diamine fluoride in a school‐based caries prevention program	6
Social capital and oral health in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
National patterns in paediatric hospital admissions for dental extractions in England	6
Difference of income inequalities of denture use by co‐payment rates: A JAGES cross‐sectional study	6
Explaining the concept of oral health literacy: Findings from an exploratory study	6
Fidelity of motivational interviewing with families in high‐caries‐risk children	6
Disparities in spatial accessibility to public dental services relative to estimated need for oral health care among refugee populations in Victoria	6
High sugar intake from sugar‐sweetened beverages is associated with prevalence of untreated decay in US adults: NHANES 2013–2016	6

Causal inference in dentistry: Time to move forward	6
Health ombudsman and racial inequities in Dental Specialities Centers performance in Brazil: A multilevel analysis	6
The independent and joint contribution of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on oral health indicators	6
Experiences of discrimination and oral health‐related quality of life among foreign‐born older Chinese Americans: Does resilience play a mediating role?	5
Developing an early childhood oral health impact–specific health‐state classification system for a new preference‐based instrument, the ECOHIS‐4D	5
Changes in oral health inequalities in adults in Chile	5
Development and validation of the parenting and child tooth brushing assessment questionnaire	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
Edentulism and select chronic diseases among adults aged ≥45 years in China, 2011‐2018: A longitudinal study	5
Social practice theory: An innovative approach to considering preschool children’s poor oral health	5
Prevalence of toothache in Chinese adults aged 65 years and above	5
Evolution and development of methodologies in social and behavioural science research in relation to oral health	5
Factors associated with self‐perceived oral health in different age groups	5
User satisfaction with the secondary dental care services: Is there an association between structure and work process?	5
Oral health‐related stigma: Describing and defining a ubiquitous phenomenon	5
Water fluoridation, dental caries and parental ratings of child oral health	5
Temporomandibular‐disorder‐related pain as a predictor of severe headaches	5
Using behaviour change science to deliver oral health practice: A commentary	5
Is the association between social support and oral health modified by household income? Findings from a national study of adults in Australia	5
A scoping review of pharmacy participation in dental and oral health care	5
Role of management and human resource factors on matrix support in secondary oral health care in Brazil	5
Determining the factors associated with oral health‐related quality of life in Chinese elders: Findings from the fourth national survey	5
Improving access of young adults with experience of homelessness to primary care dental services in the UK: A realist synthesis	5
Polypharmacy and saliva volumes in the northeast of Germany – The Study of Health in Pomerania	4
Labels and descriptions of dental behaviour support techniques: A scoping review of clinical practice guidelines	4
Effectiveness of school‐based strategies to prevent tooth decay in Filipino children: A cluster‐randomized trial	4
Socioecological determinants of child oral health—A scoping review	4
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	4
Untreated dental caries among Libyan children during and after the war and in internally displaced person camps	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
The role of oral health‐related quality of life in the association between dental caries and height, weight and BMI among children in Bangladesh	4
De‐implementing opioid prescribing in a dental group practice: Lessons learned	4
Factors associated with the waiting time for access to specialized oral healthcare services in Brazil	4
Caries experience among children born after a complicated pregnancy	4
Prevalence of traumatic dental injuries in emergency dental services: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	4
Economic cost of managing patients with oral potentially malignant disorders in Sri Lanka	4
Community health worker intervention to improve tooth brushing in young children: Results from a cluster randomized controlled trial	4
Association between periodontal disease and oral cancer screening among US adults: NHANES 2011‐2014	4
Prevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection among oral health care workers worldwide: A meta‐analysis	4
How do dental practitioners, educators and students diagnose and manage caries risk and caries lesions? A COM‐B analysis	4
Fluoride hesitancy: A mixed methods study on decision‐making about forms of fluoride	4
Cost‐effectiveness and efficacy of fluoride varnish for caries prevention in South African children: A cluster‐randomized controlled community trial	4
Longitudinal evaluation of determinants of the clinical consequences of untreated dental caries in early childhood	4
Emergency department use for nontraumatic dental conditions among children and adolescents: NEDS 2014‐2015	4
Acculturation and dental sealant use among US children	4
Oral health care for people with disabilities in Brazil: Transition from the specialized dental services between 2014 and 2018	4
The Necessity of qualitative research for advancing oral health	4