title: School bullying and traumatic dental injuries in East London adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the association between school bullying and traumatic dental injuries (TDI) among 15-16-year-old school children from East London.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from phase III of the Research with East London Adolescents Community Health Survey (RELACHS), a school-based prospective study of a representative sample of adolescents, were analysed. Adolescents provided information on demographic characteristics, socioeconomic measures and frequency of bullying in school through self-administered questionnaires and were clinically examined for overjet, lip coverage and TDI. The association between school bullying and TDI was assessed using binary logistic regression models.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The prevalence of TDI was 17%, while lifetime and current prevalence of bullying was 32% and 11%, respectively. The prevalence of TDI increased with a growing frequency of bullying; from 16% among adolescents who had never been bullied at school, to 21% among those who were bullied in the past but not this school term, to 22% for those who were bullied this school term. However, this association was not statistically significant either in crude or adjusted regression models.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was no evidence of an association between frequency of school bullying and TDI in this sample of 15-16-year-old adolescents in East London.
authors.affiliation: King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's, King's College and St. Thomas' Hospitals, Division of Population and Patient Health, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Agel
authors.affiliation: Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Marcenes
authors.affiliation: Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Stansfeld
authors.affiliation: King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's, King's College and St. Thomas' Hospitals, Division of Population and Patient Health, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bernabé
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D058445:Bullying; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008131:London / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012574:Schools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D018677:Tooth Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*