Inequalities in dental health in the north-west of England.
OBJECTIVE
To investigate whether variations in child dental health of children from different ethnic groups could be explained by material deprivation.


METHODS
Using BASCD coordinated survey data of dental health of five-year-old children in Bury and Rochdale PCT, the mean dmft adjusted for deprivation was compared between white and Asian children.


RESULTS
Children from Asian families have significantly poorer dental health than their white peers and this major health inequality is present over and above any impacts due to material deprivation.


CONCLUSIONS
These data highlight the value of the overview provided by the UK survey programmes and the need for detailed local studies.
Pine
Cynthia
C
Department of Clinical Dental Sciences, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry, Liverpool, UK. cmpine@liverpool.ac.uk
Burnside
Girvan
G
Craven
Rebecca
R
D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D044466:Asian People; D002648:Child; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003467:Cultural Deprivation; D004245:DMF Index; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000208:ethnology*; D004739:England; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D011203:Poverty; D044465:White People