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[Special issue of Community Dental Health, to be disseminated at the ‘Power in Dentistry’ International Association for Dental Research symposium, July 2022, China]
By L. M. Jamieson
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, AUSTRALIA
Oral health inequities at a global level persist. This is despite marked advancements in technology, service delivery, training, research and population-level initiat
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The Local Dental Network (LDN) Chairs, who provide clinical leadership throughout England, have stated that they fully support the recently published position statements by the UK Chief Medical Officers1 around the potential for water fluoridation to address entrenched oral health inequality.
Within the LDNs, clinicians working with patients see at first hand the levels of disease, misery, trauma and obvious health inequality.
Where dentists work across fluoridated and
