Really useful article and take home message from NIHR Evidence; 'when designing your research, you need to plan how to share it with the people who can use it to effect change' 👇

Supporting the joining up of thinking & services #CEW Sheffield Children's Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre zmarshman Jessica Large Zoe Burton #DUKPC24

I’m 17 and haven’t seen a dentist for four years. This is life in England’s NHS dental deserts

Shameful. Neglect. ⁦WeSchoolNurses 💙⁩ ⁦Victoria Atkins⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Wonderful presentation about use of art research practices in project on experiences of patients with partial dentures with artist Gina Allen working with Barry Gibson, ⁦Nicolas Martin⁩ ⁦Prof Sarah Baker⁩ and colleagues funded by ⁦⁦Haleon HealthPartner (HCP)⁩

Out now: #WasNotBrought adults at risk (WNB-AAR) ‘purple pathway’ added to BDA toolkit. Thanks to my CDS & #specialcaredentistry colleagues, including James Bird & Jo Adlington, for adapting this from #WNBCYP and to the BDA for making it available 💜

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Guideline committees around the world, except in the UK, recommend antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) is given to people at high-risk of IE before undergoing invasive dental treatment to reduce the risk of developing the serious heart infection 🫀

Read more on our website👇

It’s that time of year again -

Teaching communication skills to 2nd and 3rd year #dental students

1st session: dental anxiety & our Helping children with dental anxiety resources for dentally anxious children

If you would like to use the free resources or want to know more about the CALM trial:

🚨 Paper alert 🚨Excited to be coauthor on a modelling study: Soft Drinks industry levy is predicted to lead to ⬇️ in dental caries, overweight/obesity & ⬆️ quality of life & life expectancy in children in England. Biggest gains in the most deprived areas journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…

A great opportunity to present work of the BRUSH team on barriers and facilitators to supervised toothbrushing programmes Supervisedtoothbrushing.com

Fantastic two days @BASCD Spring Conference in Greenwich of talks exploring collaboration to promote and improve oral health! Feeling very privileged to be part of such a great specialty

BSG Parkinson's UK This paper may be of interest - recently published in British Dental Journal by Jessie Tebbutt zmarshman and myself

The oral health experiences of people living with Parkinson’s

nature.com/articles/s4141…

zmarshman Prof Sarah Baker We know water fluoridation can reduce hospital admissions by 60% and data analysis demonstrates less exposure to general anaesthetic extractions in fluoridated areas : nature.com/articles/sj.bd…

Reasons for variation in hospital admissions for dental extractions explained in more detail:
nature.com/articles/s4141…

Against a backdrop of austerity, together dental, health visitors, early years, schools, healthcare & public health are working hard to reduce tooth decay in Sheffield.

Our petition is nearly at 150 signatures ✍️

Please sign our petition to show your support for our next government prioritising children and young people, the future of our country. We appreciate your support!

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Child of the North Centre for Young Lives

Eid Mubarak to all of our students, staff and colleagues celebrating in Sheffield and around the world! #Eid2024

Life course epidemiology and public health

TLDR
1. Start early
2. Start way upstream
3. Shift contexts and structures
4. Relying on individual behaviour change later in life is very far from optimal

thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

New research: Adolescents' views on oral health care and promotion in Norway: everyday practices, recommendations, and future visions frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #oralhealth

Just a little biased😉 but this is an important paper from a stellar team👇

What are the challenges for the implementation of sugar taxation in the Middle East & North Africa region?

What are the possible ways forward?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Maha ElTantawi #GlobalHealth