Social Determinants in Oral Health

Dear Colleagues

The World Dental Federation defines oral health as multi-faceted, including the ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, touch, chew, swallow, and convey a range of emotions through facial expressions with confidence and without pain, discomfort, and disease of the craniofacial complex. To achieve this, new approaches should be considered in order to achieve a better comprehension of the oral health conditions amongst different social groups.
Inequalities, inequities, and disparities are terms that involve the analysis of differences in health indicators according to different variables. For instance, the scientific literature has varying evidence in dental caries, periodontal disease, and oral health incidence and prevalence considering gender, social class, education level, ethnicity, migration status, and access to dental care.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers around the world to submit different methodological and conceptual approaches that permit the increase of the scientific body about this topic (systematic reviews, epidemiological, qualitative, and mixed methods studies).

Prof. Dr. Gianrico Spagnuolo
Dr. Andrés Alonso Agudelo-Suárez
Guest Editors

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