Changing individual behaviors for better health outcomes has been a longstanding goal for health promotion and disease prevention. Within oral health, individual behaviors play a crucial role for the development and progression of disease. Dental professionals' behaviors are vital too in effectively communicating advice and supporting patients in achieving and sustaining changes with regards to their behaviors. Technology-aided, digital interventions and solutions have also gained momentum within oral health and oral health behavior change reflecting the ever changing nature of this space. Recently, key research, policy and industry developments have highlighted the ever increasing focus on oral health behavior change as an important facet of overall oral health promotion. Effectively oral health behavior change can transform patient care.
Oral health behavior change is gaining momentum with practice, policy and industry implications. To this stage, there is a lack of a dedicated space for oral health behavior change to showcase the wealth of research underway, key breakthroughs and key opportunities for the future. Also, despite much interdisciplinary research, those working on oral health behavior change are often trapped in research silos with limited exposure to other researchers, clinicians, policy makers and industry.
This Research Topic will help carve a dedicated space for oral health behavior change and its myriad applications while promoting interdisciplinary work and offering a chance for those involved in oral health behavior change to share their work with a wider, often difficult to reach, audience. This Research Topic will act as the main touch point, a hub for oral health behavior change work globally where everyone will convene and take home relevant and practical information to reshape their practices.
The proposed topic will cover the entire span of oral health behavior change including: (a) practical implications for dental professionals, (b) policy considerations and developments like the recent Delivering Better Oral Health from Public Health England guidance, (c) communication of oral health behavior change, (d) the role of technology in oral health behavior change, (e) issues of health inequalities and behavior change and finally, (f) training/educating the next generation of dentists and dental professionals on oral health behavior change. Research studies (primary and secondary data collections) will be particularly welcome alongside opinion pieces from key voices in oral health behaviour change.
Changing individual behaviors for better health outcomes has been a longstanding goal for health promotion and disease prevention. Within oral health, individual behaviors play a crucial role for the development and progression of disease. Dental professionals' behaviors are vital too in effectively communicating advice and supporting patients in achieving and sustaining changes with regards to their behaviors. Technology-aided, digital interventions and solutions have also gained momentum within oral health and oral health behavior change reflecting the ever changing nature of this space. Recently, key research, policy and industry developments have highlighted the ever increasing focus on oral health behavior change as an important facet of overall oral health promotion. Effectively oral health behavior change can transform patient care.
Oral health behavior change is gaining momentum with practice, policy and industry implications. To this stage, there is a lack of a dedicated space for oral health behavior change to showcase the wealth of research underway, key breakthroughs and key opportunities for the future. Also, despite much interdisciplinary research, those working on oral health behavior change are often trapped in research silos with limited exposure to other researchers, clinicians, policy makers and industry.
This Research Topic will help carve a dedicated space for oral health behavior change and its myriad applications while promoting interdisciplinary work and offering a chance for those involved in oral health behavior change to share their work with a wider, often difficult to reach, audience. This Research Topic will act as the main touch point, a hub for oral health behavior change work globally where everyone will convene and take home relevant and practical information to reshape their practices.
The proposed topic will cover the entire span of oral health behavior change including: (a) practical implications for dental professionals, (b) policy considerations and developments like the recent Delivering Better Oral Health from Public Health England guidance, (c) communication of oral health behavior change, (d) the role of technology in oral health behavior change, (e) issues of health inequalities and behavior change and finally, (f) training/educating the next generation of dentists and dental professionals on oral health behavior change. Research studies (primary and secondary data collections) will be particularly welcome alongside opinion pieces from key voices in oral health behaviour change.