ArticleFrontiers in oral health2025
Resources for oral health in Africa.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence and associated risk indicators of early childhood caries in Nigeria: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2026Pooled it
- Prevalence of early childhood caries in Southern Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2026Pooled it
- Prevalence and risk factors for early childhood caries in North Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2025Pooled it
- National-, institutional-, and individual-level determinants of dental research excellence: an analysis of Stanford-Elsevier lists of the top 2% scholars worldwide (2017-2023).Frontiers in oral health · 2025Pooled it
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- The perspectives of teachers on barriers to optimum oral health: a qualitative study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Oral Health Conditions and Quality of Life Among Schoolchildren in Rural Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Community health worker-supported oral health promotion in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of roles, interventions, and outcomes.BMC public health · 2026Article
- An Empty Scoping Review on the Financing of Necrotizing Periodontal Disease Prevention and Control in Africa: Implications for Global Oral Health Research, Policy, and Practice.Health science reports · 2026Review
- Oral health in Africa: a neglected public health priority.Frontiers in oral health · 2026Article
- Exploring community members' perceptions of oral health in rural South Africa.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Missed preoperative nursing care in dentistry.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
- Sex, gender, and sexuality and the oral health workforce in Africa.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
- The first 1,000 days of life and early childhood caries: closing the global data gap.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
- A call for a paradigm shift to community-embedded, home-based primary preventive oral health care in Africa.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
- The impact of oral health disparities on smoking prevalence.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
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Abstract
Oral health in Africa is often overlooked despite its substantial impact on overall health and well-being. Currently, Africa has a very high prevalence of dental diseases, including untreated dental caries in permanent teeth, severe periodontal disease and oral cancer. Dental human resources are also very low, with dentists ranging from 1.77 to 0.03 per 10,000 population across the continent. The number of technicians also varies across the continent from 0.17 to.0.1 per 10,000 population. Southern Africa has the highest median dental assistants and therapists per 10,000 population ratio (0.2), whereas Northern Africa has no dental assistants or therapists. In addition, limited infrastructure and funding have resulted in significant oral health disparities, leaving large portions of the population without adequate access to oral health services. Only 57% of African countries have developed an oral health policy that sets targets and implementation strategies. African countries have also been shown to spend a fraction of their health budget on oral health care, albeit that dentistry is one of the most expensive medical services. Addressing these gaps requires addressing the oral health workforce needs, facilitating the development of oral health policies built on context-specific evidence, and guiding practice and policy. In addition, partnerships are needed to support innovation, sustainability and monitoring of the instituted oral health programs.
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