Community Dental Health

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Cover Date:
June 2016
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Vol:
33
Issue:
2

The mouth as a site of structural inequalities; an introduction

A key premise of sociology is to promote fairness, justice and equity. These goals are synonymous with those of dental
public health organisations throughout the world. However, an additional purpose of sociology is to reveal invisible
points of observation, particularly those related to power. In the five papers that follow, we seek to contribute to the
discourse around oral health-related inequalities through the lens of power and human agency. Based on the seminal
work of Davis in the 1970s, Lukes’ three-dimensional power framework and Goodley’s work on dis/ability, we present
a range of papers from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand that give examples of structural power and
disadvantage as they relate to the oral health experiences of Aboriginal Australians, dental school curricula and encounters in the dental practice. The papers formed the basis of a symposium entitled ‘A sociological/ anthropological
perspective on oral health inequalities’ at the 94th General Session of the International Association of Dental Research
held June 2016 in Seoul, Korea. This symposium was a product of many requests over the years for there to be a
specific research session focussing on the role of sociology and anthropology in oral health inequalities, especially as
they relate to disadvantaged populations, dental service provision and dental school curricula.

doi:10.1922/CDH_3723Jamieson01

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Authors
Lisa M. Jamieson

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  1. Editorial - Prevention of dental caries through the use of fluoride – the WHO approach
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  1. Fluoride and Oral Health
  2. 69
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  1. Child oral health in migrant families: A cross-sectional study of caries in 1-4 year old children from migrant backgrounds residing in Melbourne, Australia
  2. 100
  3. 106

  1. Choosing a measure of Health Related Quality of Life
  2. 107
  3. 115

  1. Feasibility, utility and impact of a national dental epidemiological survey of three-year-old children in England 2013
  2. 116
  3. 120

  1. Dental anxiety, concomitant factors and change in prevalence over 50 years
  2. 121
  3. 126

  1. A bi-level intervention to improve oral hygiene of older and disabled adults in low-income housing: results of a pilot study
  2. 127
  3. 132

  1. Association between child caries and maternal health-related behaviours
  2. 133
  3. 137

  1. Caries and costs: an evaluation of a school-based fluoride varnish programme for adolescents in a Swedish region
  2. 138
  3. 144

  1. Examiner reliability in fluorosis scoring: a comparison of photographic and clinical methods
  2. 145
  3. 150

  1. The mouth as a site of structural inequalities; an introduction
  2. 151
  3. 151

  1. The mouth and dis/ability
  2. 152
  3. 155

  1. Inequalities in oral health: the role of sociology
  2. 156
  3. 160

  1. The mouth as a site of structural inequalities; the experience of Aboriginal Australians
  2. 161
  3. 163

  1. Do ‘poor areas’ get the services they deserve? The role of dental services in structural inequalities in oral health
  2. 164
  3. 167

  1. Overcoming structural inequalities in oral health: the role of dental curricula
  2. 168
  3. 172