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ArticleBritish dental journal2024

Could the minimum intervention oral care framework help improve the quality of oral health delivery and access to NHS primary dental care?

Lamis Abuhaloob, Austen El-Osta, Tim Newton, Salman Rawaf, Avijit Banerjee

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Article in British dental journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lamis AbuhaloobWHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, 90 Wood Lane, W12 0BZ, UK. lamisabuhaloob@yahoo.com.
Austen El-OstaSelf-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU), Imperial College London, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College School of Public Health, 90 Wood Lane, W12 0BZ, UK.
Tim NewtonCentre of Oral Clinical Translational Sciences/Conservative & MI Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King´s College London, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, UK.
Salman RawafWHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, 90 Wood Lane, W12 0BZ, UK.
Avijit BanerjeeCentre of Oral Clinical Translational Sciences/Conservative & MI Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King´s College London, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Access to NHS primary dental care services is a perennial issue in the UK. Two aspects must be considered when measuring access to dental care: 'entry access', which relates to service availability resulting in realised initial or continued access; and 'effective access', the delivery of effective, equitable and efficient care, which manifests as equitable and optimal outcomes of care. It is proposed that the minimum intervention oral care (MIOC) delivery framework provides a person-focused, prevention-based, susceptibility/needs-related, team-delivered approach to ensuring effective access to primary oral and dental care. A theory of change model could identify the key barriers to overcome the implementation of the MIOC approach, involving all key stakeholders in primary oral and dental care delivery.

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Dental CareHealth Services AccessibilityPrimary Health CareDelivery of Health CareHumansOral HealthQuality of Health CareState DentistryState MedicineUnited Kingdom

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PMID39143226
PMCPMC11436348

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