title: Oral health assessment in clinical practice: new perspectives on the need for a comprehensive and evidence based approach.
abstract: This paper highlights one aspect of a presentation to be given at the BDA Conference and is written in the context of dentistry in primary care. Careful oral health assessment as a foundation to good treatment planning and quality dentistry is not new, but there are a number of important new perspectives emerging across countries and healthcare systems in terms of the content and role of such an assessment in modern dental practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Dundee's Dental Health Services Research Unit, Community Health Sciences, Mackenzie Building, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee DD2 4BF.
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Pitts
mesh_terms: D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D003945:Diagnosis, Oral / Q000592:standards*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans