Notes

Amendments

​23 Mar 2021

  • A correction to a transcription error has been made to the interactive data visualisation: Dental care Interactive 10.

  • A correction has been made to Healthy mouths Interactive 5: the y-axis label was amended to reflect the correct units (Average number) for the Missing teeth due to pathology measure. The y-axis was previously incorrectly labelled as Per cent.

Updates

17 March 2023

The Oral health and dental care in Australia 17 March 2023 revision includes:

  • An update of the Summary chapter
  • An update to the Healthy lives chapter
    • Burden of disease
    • Oral cancers
  • An update to the Dental care chapter
    • National Health Survey 2020–21
    • Public Dental Waiting Times
  • An update of the Hospitalisations chapter
  • An update of the Prescribing chapter
  • An update of the Patient experience chapter
  • An update to the Costs chapter
    • Expenditure
  • Addition of the Disease expenditure chapter
  • An update to the Private health insurance chapter
    • Health expenditure by private health insurance funds
    • Private health insurers data
  • An update of the Dental workforce chapter
  • Additions and updates to the Priority populations chapters
    • People who are socially disadvantaged or on low incomes
      • Addition of the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people section
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
      • An update of the NTRAI OHP section
    • People with additional and/or specialised health care needs
      • Expanded section on People with disability in Australia

17 Mar 2022 

The Oral health and dental care in Australia 17 March 2022 revision includes:

  • addition of the Summary chapter
  • an update to the Healthy lives chapter
    • Burden of disease
    • Oral cancers
  • an update and additions to the Dental care chapter
    • National Child Oral Health Study 2012–14
    • Child Dental Benefits Schedule
    • Public Dental Waiting Times
  • an update to the Hospitalisations chapter
  • an update to the Prescribing chapter
  • an update to the Patient experience chapter
  • an update to the Costs chapter
    • Expenditure
  • an update to the Private health insurance chapter
  • an update and additions to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians chapter
  • an addition to the People with additional and/or specialised health care needs chapter
  • addition of content to Report editions chapter

23 Mar 2021

The Oral health and dental care in Australia 23 March 2021 revision included:

  • an update to the Healthy teeth chapter
  • an update to the Healthy mouths chapter
  • an update and additions to the Dental care chapter
  • an update to the Patient experience chapter
  • an update of the Health expenditure by private health insurance funds section in the Private health insurance chapter
  • an update to the Dental workforce chapter
  • the addition of the Priority populations chapter.

31 Jul 2020

The Oral health and dental care in Australia 31 July 2020 revision included:

  • an update to the Healthy lives chapter
  • an update to the Toothbrushing section in the Preventative strategies chapter
  • an update to the Child Dental Benefits Schedule and the Public Dental Waiting Times sections in the Dental Care chapter
  • an update of the Hospitalisations chapter
  • an update of the Prescribing chapter
  • an update to the Expenditure and Financial barriers sections in the Costs chapter
  • an update of the Health expenditure by private health insurance funds section in the Private health insurance chapter
  • addition of Private health insurers data section in the Private health insurance chapter.

20 Mar 2019

The Oral health and dental care in Australia 20 March 2019 revision included:

  • an update to the Public Dental Waiting Times section in the Dental care chapter
  • addition of Prescribing chapter
  • addition of Patient Experience chapter
  • addition of Costs chapter
  • addition of Private health insurance chapter
  • addition of Workforce chapter.