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Dr
Michaela
Goodwin
+44 161 2324711
michaela.goodwin@manchester.ac.uk
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Dental decay (caries)
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Children in the poorest areas of England have much more tooth decay than those in wealthier areas, and this is a major health inequality. These children are often referred by regular dentists to a Community Dental Service (CDS) for specialist treatment and many are sent on to hospital to have teeth removed while asleep under general anaesthetic. At present, about 15,000 children need teeth removed in hospital each year in England, and this is the commonest reason for children being admitted. Unfortunately waiting times for CDS and hospital referrals have increased during the Covid 19 pandemic.
During Covid 19, a potential alternative to treating these children was introduced; a special kind of dental practice known as a “Child Friendly Dental Practice” (CFDP). These practices have additional support that allows them the time to manage children with lots of decay and their waiting times are only a few weeks. By seeing these children earlier there is a good chance we can reduce the need to send them to a CDS or to hospital for extractions. This option should reduce demands on hospitals and enable them to focus on those children who have the most urgent complex dental needs.
We have some pilot study information which suggests that around 50% of children referred to Child Friendly Dental Practice can be treated there without the need to visit another service.The working assumption underpinning the pilot was that the Child Friendly Dental Practices would improve things. We will test that assumption using a 'realist approach' and unravel the mechanisms which could determine how it works. We are therefore going to test these Child Friendly Dental Practices at a much larger scale than our very small pilot study, and we want to do this in a research project that measures all the different aspects of the children, their treatment, whether they ultimately still need teeth taken out under general anaesthetic, and costs and savings.
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Patients referred for orthodontic treatment
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Dr
Michaela
Goodwin
+44 161 2324711
michaela.goodwin@manchester.ac.uk
More information about this study, what is involved and how to take part can be found on the study website.
The study is sponsored by University of Manchester and funded by Health and Social Care Delivery Research.
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