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released: 17 Aug 2006 author: Armfield JM, Slade GD & Spencer AJ media release

The Child Dental Health Survey provides yearly information on the dental health of children attending school dental services in Australia. This report describes and discusses the survey and presents analyses for 2001. The data cover 110,834 children from all states and territories except for New South Wales.

ISSN 1321-0254; ISBN 978 1 74024 590 6; Cat. no. DEN 152; 48pp.; $22.00

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Available at http://www.arcpoh.adelaide.edu.au/...

Publication table of contents

  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
  • Description of survey methods
    • Source of subjects
    • Sampling
    • Data items
    • Weighting of data and data analysis
    • Exclusion of data from New South Wales and implications for assessing national oral health trends
  • Description of national findings
    • Number in sample and estimated resident population
    • Deciduous teeth
    • Permanent teeth
    • All teeth
    • Fissure sealants
    • Immediate treatment needs
    • Interstate comparison-5- to 6-year-old dmft
    • Interstate comparison-12-year-old DMFT
    • Interstate comparison-all teeth
    • National summary
  • Socioeconomic differences in children's dental health
    • Socioeconomic differences in decay experience of deciduous teeth
    • Socioeconomic differences in decay experience of permanent teeth
    • Socioeconomic differences in decay experience of fissure sealed teeth
    • Socioeconomic differences in decay experience between children in metropolitan areas and those in rural and remote areas
    • Socioeconomic differences: summary of findings
  • International comparisons
  • References 
  • Appendix A

Recommended citation

Armfield JM, Slade GD & Spencer AJ 2006. Socioeconomic differences in children's dental health: the Child Dental Health Survey, Australia 2001. Dental statistics and research series no. 33. Cat. no. DEN 152. Canberra: AIHW.