Dentistry Implementation at CSU

Resources

• Careers in Dentistry
• Australian Dental Association (NSW Branch)

Below you will find links to resources of various bodies about the crisis in dental health and services in Australia, in particular in rural and regional areas. These resources will be updated from time to time to keep our readers informed about the state of dental services in inland and rural NSW.

Reports

• Dental Health Survey, Rural Dental Action Group (2006)
• Review of Oral Health in Australia, Oral Health Alliance (2002)
• Fighting Rural Decay - Dental Health in Rural Communities, National Rural Health Alliance (1998)

Opinions and Media

• Starting School, Bite Magazine (2008)
• The Dental Divide, Sydney Morning Herald Special Report on Dental Crisis (2005)
• The Neglect of Oral Health - ABC Radio Ockham's Razor (2004)
• An effective dental health scheme needs more than funds for fillings, Online Opinion - Journal of Social and Political Debate (2004)
• Regional Australia faces dentist crisis - ABC TV The 7.30 Report (2001)

Government Inquiries

• The Blame Game: Report on the inquiry into health funding - Commonwealth Parliament House Standing Committee on Health and Ageing (2007)
• Inquiry into Dental Services in NSW, NSW Lower House Committee on Social Issues (2006)
• Regional Dental Services, NSW Parliament (2004)
• Healthy Mouths Healthy Lives: Australia's National Oral Health Plan 2004-2013, National Oral Health Advisory Committee (2004)
• The Oral Health Of Victorians, Auditor General of Victoria (2002)

Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health Reports and Statistics

• Dental therapist labour force in Australia, 2003 (May 2006)
• Urban and rural variations in child oral health (May 2006)
• Emergency care among adult public dental patients in Australia (Mar 2006)
• Access to dental services among Australian children and adults (May 2006)
• Dental prosthetist labour force in Australia, 2003 (Jan 2006)
• Social impact of oral conditions among Australian adults (Feb 2006)
• Trends in productivity of dentists in Australia (Jan 2006)
• Dental hygienist labour force in Australia, 2003 (Oct 2005)
• Oral health and access to dental care - rural and remote dwellers (Jul 2005)
• Oral Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Persons (Feb 2003)
• Oral health of public dental patients in rural areas (Nov 2002)
• Social Determinants of Oral Health (Feb 2003)
• Demand for Dental Care (Jan 2003)
• Rural Oral Health and Access to Dental Care - 1994-96 and 1999 (Feb 2002)
• Oral Health and Access to Dental Care - the gap between the 'deprived' and the 'privileged' in Australia (Mar 2001)
• Oral Health and Access to Dental Care - 1994-96 and 1999 (Mar 2001)
• Oral Health and Access to Dental Care - Older Adults in Australia (Nov 2000)
• Oral Health and Access to Dental Services Among Indigenous Australians (Mar 2000)
• What options do we have for organising, providing and funding better public dental care? (2001)
• Oral Health of Australians: National planning for oral health improvemenT (2001)