How can we improve oral health and dental services?

Oral health and dental services have changed massively since the COVID-19 pandemic started. With fewer opportunities to visit the dentist, most patients had to rethink self-care and self-assessment of their oral health and/or communicate with oral health and dental professionals remotely.

Prevention is an important part of oral health and dental services and routine appointments should help. After all, dental decay is the world’s most prevalent non-transmissible disease; gum disease is a major cause of tooth loss; oral cancer screening is done at routine dental appointments. However, these services are changing and we need your help to improve and reshape oral health and dental services.

At the Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, along with our partners at the NHS Education for Scotland, we are developing new ideas and research projects to help patients achieve better oral health and improve dental services.

To make these ideas as useful as possible, we need your help!

In our platform, GUIDE oral health, we would like to hear your ideas about how oral health and dental services can be improved and how we can help enable you to take better care of your oral health.

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