Access to dental care barriers and poor clinical oral health in Australian regional populations

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dc.contributor.authorCrocombe, L.A.
dc.contributor.authorChrisopoulos, S.
dc.contributor.authorKapellas, K.
dc.contributor.authorBrennan, D.
dc.contributor.authorLuzzi, L.
dc.contributor.authorKhan, S.
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionPublished December 2022
dc.description.abstractBackground: This paper investigated the associations between oral health with behavioural, demographic, periodontitis risk, financial and access to dental care barriers and compared the results in three Australian regional areas. Methods: Data were obtained from the Australian National Study of Adult Oral Health (2017–18). Oral health status was measured using DMFT-score, and mean numbers of decayed, missing or filled teeth and periodontitis prevalenceusing the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Periodontal Classification. The analysis included these dependent variables by three regional areas, seven socio-demographic variables, two periodontal disease risk factors, two preventive dental behaviours, two barriers to dental care and three access to dental care variables. Results: Of the 15,731 people interviewed, 5,022 were examined. There was no significant difference in periodontitis prevalence between the regions. All the socio-demographic characteristics, periodontal disease risk factors and preventive dental behaviours were significantly associated with at least one of the dental caries indicators. In multivariable analysis,there was no significant association between regional location with any of the four clinical dental caries variables. Conclusion: Poorer oral health outside major cities was associated with household income, education level, higher smoking, usual reason for and frequency of dental visiting.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityA Crocombe, S Chrisopoulos, K Kapellas, D Brennan, L Luzzi, S Khan
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Dental Journal, 2022; 67(4):344-351
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/adj.12930
dc.identifier.issn0045-0421
dc.identifier.issn1834-7819
dc.identifier.orcidCrocombe, L.A. [0000-0002-3916-0058]
dc.identifier.orcidChrisopoulos, S. [0000-0002-0192-4382]
dc.identifier.orcidKapellas, K. [0000-0002-3761-9953]
dc.identifier.orcidBrennan, D. [0000-0002-7888-0920]
dc.identifier.orcidLuzzi, L. [0000-0002-5450-6483]
dc.identifier.orcidKhan, S. [0000-0002-6695-4013]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/136006
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1115649
dc.rights© 2022 The Authors.Australian Dental Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australian Dental Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/adj.12930
dc.subjectAccess
dc.subjectDental services
dc.subjectOral health
dc.subjectRegional
dc.subjectRural
dc.titleAccess to dental care barriers and poor clinical oral health in Australian regional populations
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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