Suruchi Gajanan Ganbavale

University of Liverpool | UoL · Department of Public Health and Policy

Objectives To investigate the relationship between socioenvironmental sugar promotion and geographical inequalities in the prevalence of dental caries amongst 5‐year‐olds living across small areas within England. Methods Ecological data from the National Dental Epidemiology Programme (NDEP) 2018–2019, comprising information on the percentage of 5‐...

The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which neighborhood-level socioeconomic factors (objective and perceived) are associated with poor oral health in older adults over time, independent of individual socioeconomic position. Data for this cross-sectional and longitudinal observation study came from a socially and geographically represe...

Background There are marked socioeconomic inequalities in oral health. However, the influence of socioenvironmental circumstances of where individuals, particularly older adults, live remains underexplored. This study examined the influence of area-level socioenvironmental deprivation (objective and perceived) on changes in oral health of older adu...

Background: Geographical inequalities in children’s dental health, associated with area-level deprivation, could be explained by variation in sugar-promotion in local environments. Investigating the nature and variation of such local-level sugar-promoting environments can inform public health planning. Aim: To investigate local-level socio-environ...

AimTo investigate the relationship between neighbourhood school environment and dental care needs of 5-to-11-year-olds attending a local dental facility in Portsmouth, South-East England.Methods Secondary analyses were undertaken using three cross-sectional, open-access datasets. Data included 4 years of children’s electronic dental records from th...

Over the last decade, there has been a renewed interest in oral health workforce planning. The purpose of this review is to examine oral health workforce planning models on supply, demand and needs, mainly in respect to their data sources, modelling technique and use of skill mix. A limited search was carried out on PubMed and Web of Science for pu...

A presentation concerning the development and use of a multidimensional index in understanding sugar-promoting environments and oral health inequalities

Over the last decade, there has been a renewed interest in oral health workforce planning. The purpose of this review is to examine oral health workforce planning models on supply, demand and needs, mainly in respect to their data sources, modelling technique and use of skill mix. A search was carried out on PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Schol...

Aim The aim of this pilot study was to explore the time taken to complete key contemporary dental procedures by dentists and dental hygienists/therapists (DH/DTs) working in primary dental care and their views on the factors that influence the length of time taken to complete individual dental procedures. Materials and methods An exploratory mixed...

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the time taken to complete key contemporary dental treatments by dental professionals working in primary dental care and explore their view on the factors which influence speed of treatment. Materials and Methods: An exploratory mixed methods study of a linear design involving an online questionnaire surve...