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Oral Health Promotion
Update September 2019
The Oral Health Promotion Team is not currently accepting any
requests for advice or training. We are very much hoping that this
will change in the near future. Please keep coming back
to the website for information and updates.
We are closely linked to a local Health Integration Team (HIT),
BoNEE, whose remit is to
conduct research into and then provide information and advice about
reducing inequalities in early years' health. There are three
workstreams: Social and Emotional Health and Wellbeing, Nutrition,
and Oral Health. Please click the link above for further details of
our research work.
Epidemiology
The PCDS is commissioned to conduct epidemiological survey work
for the local authorities of Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North
Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset. Most years we
visit primary schools to examine children's teeth as part of the
national NHS Dental Epidemiology Programme. Some years we also take
part in the national Child or Adult Dental Health Surveys.
All of these survey results are published, and they often generate
headlines in the national press. In the last survey of 5 year
olds (2014-15), Bristol came in at just better than the national
average for dental decay. Click here
for further details.