This research looks at understanding the bases of anxiety and fear, including dental fear, by employing a new cognitive model and will form the body of a PhD. It is proposed that fear is a direct result of perceptions of stimulus characteristics.

The extent to which water fluoridation has contributed to the considerable reduction of dental decay in children in recent times in Australia is unclear, due perhaps to the increasing availability of fluoride in other sources such as toothpaste, drops, tablets, and professional applications. It is proposed to monitor for approximately three years a sample of […]

The South Australian Dental Longitudinal Study (SADLS) has been the first comprehensive dental longitudinal study of older adults to be conducted in Australia. Participants were aged 60+ years at the 1991 baseline data collection, and were a random sample of community-dwelling older adults in urban Adelaide and rural Mount Gambier. The 11-year follow-up data collection […]

The strong relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and oral health parallels similar relationships between socioeconomic status and a wide variety of chronic health conditions with common risk factor. However little research has attempted to explain this phenomenon. This study will draw together a comprehensive range of social factors impacting on people’s daily lives to develop […]

This research builds on the social determinants of oral health project. The objectives of this project are to evaluate the area (contextual) influences of neighbourhood on oral health and to determine the relative importance of both individual-level (compositional) and contextual characteristics in explaining variation in adult oral health.

As part of a major health survey of juveniles in detention in NSW, ARCPOH staff were involved in training and calibrating examiners.

This project was funded in July 2004 by Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation of SA Inc. A prospective cohort study of 550 children involves collaboration with Departments of Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology as well as the SA Dental Service.

The purpose of this research is to document the nature, distribution and determinants of oral health among 29‑year‑olds in South Australia so as to identify points of intervention to maintain Australia’s improved oral health further into adulthood. Adults who participated in earlier research as 13-year-olds in 1988–89 will be followed-up with a social survey and […]

The 2004-06 National Survey of Adult Oral Health (NSAOH) interviewed a nationally-representative sample of 14,123 people aged 15-97 years and dentally examined 5,505 of them. It represented Australia’s second oral health examination survey, occurring 17 years after the 1987-88 National Oral Health Survey of Australia. The NSAOH was directed by a team of researchers from […]

Life course epidemiology is gaining interest as a means to understand the impact of exposures in early life on health outcomes in adulthood. 15-year follow-up study of children recruited and examined in 1991/92.