Dental Health

Modern dentistry aims to avoid dental fillings by preventing dental disease.

Follow the links below to find information on dental health.

Updated February 2009

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Title:   Oral health
Publisher:   Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Description:   Oral health among Indigenous Australians. Guidelines, health promotion resources, journal articles, reports and publications, theses, bibliography and organisations.
Date:   Nov 2009
Title:   Media release. Minister consults on dental reform
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, visited The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne to discuss recommendations from the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission with dental health professionals.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Media release. Training dentists in Wagga Wagga
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Construction is complete and students are enrolled at the new School of Dentistry and Health Science at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Oral health behaviours in the Australian population 2004-06
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report provides information on the oral health behaviours of the adult Australian population in the period 2004-06.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Personal hygiene
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Good personal hygiene is one of the most effective ways to protect ourselves, and others, from illness. This means washing your hands, especially, but also your body. Good habits can help control body odour and bad breath.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Dental & allied health
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
Description:   Information about DVA arrangments for dentists and allied health professionals who treat eligible veterans
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Dental notes: Pharmacogenetics of warfarin
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Pharmacogenetics is genetic testing to optimise prescribing for individual patients. Warfarin is a potential candidate for pharmacogenetic testing as it is commonly used, has a narrow therapeutic window and its mechanism of action and elimination pathways involve receptors and enzymes that are polymorphic.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Prescribing good oral hygiene for adults
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Good oral hygiene is necessary to maintain a healthy mouth. This involves effective, mechanical removal of bacterial plaque from the teeth and from between the teeth every day.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Relative needs index study, South Australia and New South Wales
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   The demand for public dental services exceeds the capacity of available resources. Services are therefore rationed by categorising them into those seeking emergency or general dental care and then, most commonly, by chronological queuing.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Caring for oral health in Australian residential care
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   As the Australian population ages and more older Australians retain their natural teeth, more people living in residential aged care are developing complex oral disease and dental problems. This report shows that carers play a crucial role in helping maintain the oral health of older adults in residential aged care.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Teeth - quiz
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Think you know about your teeth? Try our health quiz to test your oral health knowledge. Is fruit juice bad for teeth and is fluoride good? The answers are here.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Teeth (easy read)
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   What are teeth? The part you can see is called the crown. It has roots to hold it in your gum. Teeth bite and chew food.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Media release. Australia's first dental plan for nursing homes
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Minister for Ageing, Mrs Justine Elliot has announced the preparation of the first oral and dental health care plan for nursing home residents.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Oral health of health cardholders attending for dental care in the private and public sectors
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Health cardholders who visit a public dentist have a similar level of oral health and receive similar dental care as those who visit a private dentist. This publication presents findings on health cardholders attending for dental care in the private and public sector using data from the National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004-06.
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Geographic variation in oral health and use of dental services in the Australian population 2004-06
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   All measures of tooth loss, poorer oral health and unfavourable dental visiting patterns were more prevalent among non-capital-city residents than capital-city dwellers.
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Oral health of adults in the public dental sector
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report presents findings from adult patients receiving public dental care. Findings are presented on tooth loss, dental caries and periodontal disease, and comparisons are made between public dental patients and the Australian population using data from the National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004-06.
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   New guidelines for infective endocarditis prophylaxis
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Therapeutic Guidelines has revised the guidelines for the use of antibiotics for prophylaxis against infective endocarditis. The major change is that antibiotic prophylaxis is no longer indicated in patients with aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, or symptomatic or asymptomatic mitral valve prolapse.
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Preventing infections of the heart
Publisher:   National Prescribing Service
Description:   This leaflet is about preventing an infection of the heart in people with heart conditions. The infection is called infective endocarditis (en-DOH-car-DI-tis). It explains how antibiotics can be used, how advice about using antibiotics has recently changed, and why keeping your mouth healthy is very important.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Dentist labour force projections, 2005-2020
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report provides dentist labour force projections from 2005 to the year 2020.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Dental practice activity by geographic location
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This research report provides information on the practice activity of dentists in Australia in relation to their geographic location.
Date:   Nov 2008
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