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Oral Health

The Oral Health topic aims to improve children’s oral health by researching and implementing evidence-based oral health promotion across early years services.

Oral Health Projects

PROMOTE PRomoting hOMe toOThbrushing in young children through Education settings.

This project aims to explore how to promote home toothbrushing in children participating in Supervised Toothbrushing Programmes and improve the links between brushing in nursery/school and at home. The findings...

Acceptability of photobiomodulation for mucositis management in children and young people

Most children with cancer are treated with chemotherapy. Eight in every ten of these children develop a sore mouth, which can involve extensive, painful ulceration. We call this oral mucositis....

CHOICE – Changing Habits to Prevent Child Caries

Unfortunately, child tooth decay is a major problem in the UK and many children end up in hospital to have teeth removed due to severe decay. This study will recruit...

Making a Difference: Our Latest Oral Health case studies

Meet the Oral Health Team

Peter Day

Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry

Our latest Oral Health publications

Nurturing in nature: an evaluation of a nature-based group for parents and caregivers of babies and young children – a thematic analysis and logic model

An assessment of the teacher completed ‘Early Years Foundation Stage Profile’ as a routine measure of child developmental health

Internal consistency and structural validity of the parent-report preschool (2-4 years) Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in 1-year-old children