Perspectives of Dental Stakeholders on the Clinical Use of Silver Diamine Fluoride in Australia for Caries.

Introduction: Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is an effective cariostatic agent that has reemerged globally in recent years. Its resurgence is timely as dental caries remains prevalent, necessitating an affordable and simple treatment option. Its implementation in Australia has been slow, with inconsistent views on its use among practitioners, but is likely imminent given the recent global uptake.

Early childhood caries intervention in Aboriginal Australian children: Follow-up at child age 9 years.

Objective: Dental caries is one of the most common preventable diseases among Indigenous children. The study aimed to estimate the efficacy of an Early Childhood Caries (ECC) intervention among Aboriginal Australian children over 9 years, and to explore potential risk factors associated with dental caries among Indigenous Australian children.

Methods: Data were from a randomized controlled trial conducted in South Australia, Australia.

Opportunities and Challenges for an Organizational Digital Public Health Strategy in a Provincial Public Health Program in Canada: Qualitative Description of Practitioner Perspectives.

Background: The digital transformation of health services accelerated during the pandemic. While "digital health" strategies were created, they paid minimal attention to public health services like health promotion, disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, and health protection.

Objective: This study aimed to inform a digital public health (DPH) strategy at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and explored public health practitioners' perspectives on challenges and opportunities of integrating digital technologies into public health functions within the organization.

Cost of the GetCheckedOnline digital testing program: Micro-costing analysis.

GetCheckedOnline.com (GCO) is a digital sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBI) testing service provided in British Columbia, Canada. Using a micro-costing approach, we calculated the costs during the planning, development and implementation phases of GCO.

Co-Designing an Antiracist Dental Health System: Protocol for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-Led Mixed Methods Study.

Background: Racism arrived in Australia with colonization and its intentionally oppressive policies and actions toward Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. To a large extent, colonial and biomedical agendas are maintained by Australia's health system that underlies much of the racialized health inequities in the country. Dentistry significantly lags behind medicine and other health care areas in the uptake of antiracism, with the dental accreditation body only acknowledging racism as a determinant of oral health in 2022.