Oral Health
Information for Professionals
Brief
Purpose of the brief:
To provide an overview of oral health in Lanarkshire, wider health impacts and economic implications alongside ongoing improvement work and future actions.
Resources
Public Health Information for Scotland
The Scottish Public Health Observatory provide data compiled on children and adult oral health. Primarily this focuses on obvious decay experience (decayed, missing or filled teeth) prevalence in children and prevalence of natural teeth in adults. The website contains links to the Scottish Health Survey, the National Dental Inspection Programme (NDIP) (which surveys children in Primary 1 and Primary 7), as well as the Scottish Adult Oral Health Survey.
Primary Dental Care
Public Health Scotland’s website outlines the aims of dental services and oral health programmes in improving the dental and oral health of people in Scotland. It collates links to a number of publications including the NHS Dental Data monitoring report, as well as an overview of general, public and hospital dental services and key adult and child health improvement initiatives.
Scottish Dental - NHS Scotland
A national website for NHS dental care services and dental health information across Scotland. A noticeboard links to latest news and updates on various surveys, strategy updates, training, education and service evaluations. Further links are available to pages containing information on national Oral Health Improvement programmes, as well as pages with information for the public and signposting.
