SynthesisBMC oral health2018
Socioeconomic status, oral health and dental disease in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.
Synthesis in BMC oral health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 89 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic Review of the Literature on Dental Caries and Periodontal Disease in Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Individuals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Education intervention with respect to the oral health knowledge, attitude, and behaviors of refugee families: A randomized clinical trial of effectiveness.Journal of public health dentistry · 2021Trial
- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Oral Health Across Age Groups Among Single-Person Households in South Korea.International dental journal · 2026Article
- Path analysis of the factors associated with oral health literacy among community-dwelling elderly individuals: a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Material Well-Being, Oral Health and Affordability of Dental Care in Late-Middle-Aged New Zealanders.Gerodontology · 2026Article
- From Disease to Illness: Reframing Periodontitis Through an Anthropological Lens.Journal of periodontal research · 2026Review
- Human iPSC-derived salivary gland organoids model diabetic salivary gland dysfunction.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A Survey of Oral Health-Related Quality of Life for Adults with Cerebral Palsy in Australia.Dentistry journal · 2025Article
- Influence of patient demographics and socio-economic status on treatment choices for permanent mature teeth with painful vital teeth: a pilot study in the Australian public dental system.Australian dental journal · 2025Article
- Article
- Impact of age-related changes in buccal epithelial cells on pediatric epigenetic biomarker research.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of a Novel Dental Health Education Program to Improve Dental Care Utilization by Bhutanese-, Burmese-, and Swahili-Speaking Refugees in a Midwestern United States City.International journal of dentistry · 2025Article
- Imbalances in the oral health workforce: a Canadian population-based study.BMC health services research · 2024Observational
- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Oral Health among Adults in Guangxi, China.Oral health & preventive dentistry · 2024Article
- Decomposition of economic inequalities in dental caries among Iranian schoolchildren.PloS one · 2024Article
- The life course and oral health in old age.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2024Review
- A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Caries Prevention following the AGREE II Checklist.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Self-Rated Oral Health as a Valid Measure of Oral Health Status in Adults Living in Rural Australia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Analysis of Race and Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Factors, and Tooth Decay Among US Children.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Oral Health-Related Quality of Life from Young Adulthood to Mid-Life.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundSocioeconomic inequalities are associated with oral health status, either subjectively (self-rated oral health) or objectively (clinically-diagnosed dental diseases). The aim of this study is to compare the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in oral health and dental disease among adults in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States (US).
methodsNationally-representative survey examination data were used to calculate adjusted absolute differences (AD) in prevalence of untreated decay and fair/poor self-rated oral health (SROH) in income and education. We pooled age- and gender-adjusted inequality estimates using random effects meta-analysis.
resultsNew Zealand demonstrated the highest adjusted estimate for untreated decay; the US showed the highest adjusted prevalence of fair/poor SROH. The meta-analysis showed little heterogeneity across countries for the prevalence of decayed teeth; the pooled ADs were 19.7 (95% CI = 16.7-22.7) and 12.0 (95% CI = 8.4-15.7) between highest and lowest education and income groups, respectively. There was heterogeneity in the mean number of decayed teeth and in fair/poor SROH. New Zealand had the widest inequality in decay (education AD = 0.8; 95% CI = 0.4-1.2; income AD = 1.0; 95% CI = 0.5-1.5) and the US the widest inequality in fair/poor SROH (education AD = 40.4; 95% CI = 35.2-45.5; income AD = 20.5; 95% CI = 13.0-27.9).
conclusionsThe differences in estimates, and variation in the magnitude of inequality, suggest the need for further examining socio-cultural and contextual determinants of oral health and dental disease in both the included and other countries.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.