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Interested in high-quality, innovative and topical research in community dentistry, oral epidemiology & dental public health? Take a look at our August issue👇 Including research from: Juliet Guichon Maha ElTantawi Nicola Innes zmarshman Eero Raittio Caoimhin Mac Giolla Phadraig Rebecca Harris

Link to issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000528/c…

How long does it take to get used to subpar research around you? Asking for a friend, of course. Academic Chatter™

The claim that community water fluoridation is associated with harm to foetal and infant cognitive development is controversial This study published by Juliet Guichon & team examines the study database for those claims and concludes that the results show no effect Link below👇

Some interesting content is coming your way soon.👇

Isn't it quite interesting that no adult over 30 in the U.S. has correctly managed their gingivitis and thus prevented themselves from becoming a periodontitis case? aap.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

“Nurses may be effective in treating children with silver diamond fluoride and other fluoride varnishes in school-based oral health programs” A new study on school-based caries prevention from Ryan Ruff and team New York University #dentistry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Is referral of parents of 6 month old children to a well-child clinic combined with non-operative caries treatment and prevention effective in maintaining oral health? A 5-year follow up study from the Netherlands by Deborah Verlinden & team onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Please retweet Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine Online course: Talks on nutrition, exercise, sleep, social networks and social prescribing, deprescribing, smoking cessation & more. Starts: 2 Sep 2024 birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/c… British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Nutritank Dr David Unwin Public Health Collaboration

The Academic Culture of Fraud buff.ly/4dkxMt8

I decided to publish our manuscript as a preprint. It was a good choice. It took almost three months from the journal to send first reviewer invitations.🤨

Our commentary Community Dentistry Oral Epidemiology reveals that EFP guidelines are unrealistic: 60-70% of all working hours available for adults in 🇳🇴 would be spent on recommended supportive visits ALONE. Rethink: what’s disease, what isn’t & how it’s handled. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

”The economic burden of periodontitis and caries far exceeds the costs of any other non-communicable diseases.” Indeed, if we let EFP and others to decide how these diseases are being treated and prevented. nature.com/articles/s4141…

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1/4 Together with Taulant Muka and Prof. John Ioannidis we explored whether results from Mega-Trials (>10,000 participants) Agree with results of Smaller Trials I will walk you through our findings on the thread below jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

To my fellow orthopods 1️⃣: Why do we oppose orthopaedic sham-controlled trials so aggressively? reito.fi/critical_ortho…