Stennett, Michelle;
Venturelli, Renato;
Makhani, Semina;
Jones, Kate;
Watt, Richard G;
Heilmann, Anja;
Tsakos, Georgios;
(2025)
Ethnic inequalities in oral health within the United Kingdom: a scoping review.
British Dental Journal
10.1038/s41415-025-8876-z.
(In press).
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Abstract
Background: There are documented health inequalities between ethnic groups in the United Kingdom (UK). However, the evidence regarding ethnic inequalities in oral health is limited and not synthesised. // Aim: This scoping review aimed to provide an overview of UK ethnic oral health inequalities. // Methods: A search was conducted using Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, PubMed, and Cochrane. After identification and screening, extracted studies were categorised according to clinical, subjective, and oral health behaviour/service-related outcomes. // Results: In total, 44 articles were included. Compared to their white counterparts, caries levels were higher among Asian children and oral and pharyngeal cancers rates were higher among Asian women, while lower rates of tooth loss and edentulousness were found among most minority ethnic groups, except for Black adults, who had higher rates. Limited evidence suggests a higher likelihood of poor self-rated oral health among minority ethnic groups, compared to the white majority adult population. The patterns of ethnic oral health inequalities were heterogenous and inconsistent across most other outcomes. // Conclusions: There is evidence of ethnic inequalities in oral health within the UK, largely based on limited data from England. This review highlights the need for more robust, large-scale research to broaden understanding and help shape policies to address these inequalities.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Ethnic inequalities in oral health within the United Kingdom: a scoping review |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41415-025-8876-z |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-025-8876-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.© The Author(s) 2025. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216993 |
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