DT News - UK - New Children’s Dental Health Survey to be conducted in autumn

Dental Tribune International

Thu. 14 February 2013

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NEWPORT – The latest Children’s Dental Health Survey of children’s teeth in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be carried out in autumn 2013, the Office for National Statistics in Newport has announced. More than 1,000 schools and up to 21,000 children will take part in the survey, which has been conducted every ten years since 1973.

The survey involves a short dental examination at school with a random sample of children aged 5, 8, 12 and 15, followed by a postal questionnaire for parents/guardians. An innovation for 2013 is a self-completion questionnaire for 12- and 15-year-olds, allowing children to record their own dental care regime.

Prof. Jimmy Steele CBE, Head of the School of Dental Sciences at Newcastle University, said: “The national dental surveys are unique in the world. For 40 years they have allowed us to understand why our children’s teeth are as they are and to predict how they will be as they grow up, allowing us to plan and improve dental health.”

The survey provides information on the dental health of children, measures changes in oral health and provides information on children’s experiences of dental care and treatment and their oral hygiene. It is designed to complement both the ongoing NHS dental epidemiology programme of schools-based research on the oral health of children and other sources of data available to planners and commissioners of dental services. The surveyed population will include children attending state and independent primary and secondary schools.

Dental teams are being recruited from the areas local to the schools that are selected to take part. Dentists and dental nurses will receive a comprehensive training programme prior to the fieldwork to ensure understanding and application of the examination criteria. All examinations will follow a set procedure and use the same criteria for all children within each age group, although the clinical parameters measured will vary between age groups.

The work is being carried out on behalf of the Health and Social Care Information Centre with funding by the Department of Health in each country. The research consortium is led by the Office for National Statistics, and includes the National Centre for Social Research, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, and five university dental schools (Birmingham, Cardiff, Newcastle, University College London and King’s College London).

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