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Oral health and ageing

21 September 2021, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm

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Floriana Bortolotti

Recording available at this link: https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/69948

 

Summary

As the Lancet series on Oral Health highlighted, oral diseases present a global public health challenge. The presentation will attempt to place oral health into the broader context of healthy ageing and highlight the relevance of oral health for function, well-being and quality of life in older adulthood. The focus will primarily be on the considerable evidence from longitudinal studies of older adulthood about the links between oral conditions and health, function, and frailty. The excessive burden of oral conditions and the epidemiological transition of the oral health of ageing populations in the last decades lead to extensive and complex future needs and extended inequalities, indicating the imminent need for public health action. The opportunities for that and integration with the broader public health agenda, within the context of the recent WHO resolution on oral health will be discussed.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/news/2021/jun/tooth-loss-may-affect-ability-carry-out-everyday-tasks
 


About the speaker:
Georgios Tsakos is a Professor in Dental Public Health, UCL, and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health with the CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and with Public Health England. 

George Tsakos is Co-Director of the MSc in Dental Public Health at UCL. He was President of the European Association of Dental Public Health (EADPH) and is currently Chair of the Platform for Better Oral Health in Europe and President of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Behavioural Epidemiological and Health Services Research group. The UCL Dental Public Health Group is a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre of Oral Health Inequalities and Public Health and through this George is involved in the development of oral health indicators for WHO. He has been a member of the Oral Health Working Group of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) and is involved in World Dental Federation (FDI) programmes. His research interests are on: Understanding (oral) health inequalities and the social determinants of health; Exploring how oral health contributes to healthy ageing; Subjective outcomes of oral health and quality of life; Evidence on association between oral and general health. He has been a key member of the consortium that carried out the national adult and children’s dental health surveys in the UK and has worked with the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and other epidemiological studies of ageing. He is currently leading a NIHR (Public Health Research programme) funded research project on the feasibility of the NICE guideline for oral health in older people in care homes.