Further Enquiries:

Australian Research Centre for
Population Oral Health
School of Dentistry
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 AUSTRALIA

Email: arcpoh@adelaide.edu.au
Phone: +61 8 8313 5438
+61 8 8313 3291
+61 8 8313 4045
Facsimile: +61 8 8313 3070
+61 8 8313 4858

Presentations/Published

89th General Session and Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR),
16–19 March 2011, San Diego, California, United States of America

AUSTRALIA Early Childhood Caries Study. Joanne Hedges

Symposium: Challenges and opportunities in fluoridation. Armfield JM.

Agreement and concordance of three dental fear and anxiety measures. Armfield JM.

Symposium: Evaluating over time trend in socioeconomic inequality in dental caries experience in children. Do LG*, Mejia G and Spencer AJ.

Association between fluorotic and non-fluorotic lesions with caries in children. Do LG*, Spencer AJ, Phelan C, Miller JL, Sivaneswaran S and Wright FAC.

Symposium: Oral health literacy interventions among Indigenous Australians. Jamieson LM.

Social cognitive theory and oral health behaviours among Australian homeless. Jamieson LM*, Parker EJ, Steffens M, Cathro P and Logan R (poster presentation).

Long-term effect of randomised trial to prevent childhood caries. Plutzer K (poster presentation).

Keynote address: A population perspective on oral health inequalities. Spencer AJ.

Symposium: panel discussion. Spencer AJ.

88th General Session and Exhibition of the IADR Barcelona, Spain, July 14-17, 2010

Impact of a triage system for prioritising urgent dental care care, K Jones, GD Slade, AJ Spencer

Reliability and validity of the Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C+) in an Australian adult sample, Jason Armfield

Oral health-related quality of life of homeless adults, Eleanor J. Parker, Lisa M. Jamieson, Margaret A. Steffens, Peter R. Cathro, Richard M. Logan

Impact of oral health care on elders in residential care, H. Tan, A.J. Spencer

An introduction to oral health inequalities among Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, Gloria C. Mejia, Eleanor J. Parker, Lisa M. Jamieson

Community-level influences on dental disease experience among Indigenous Australians, Jamieson LM, Do LG, Turrell G, Bailie RS, Stevens MR, Sayers SM.

Factors associated with dental caries experience in Australian children, Do LG, Spencer AJ, Roberts-Thomson KF, Armfield J

Caries Risk Assessment in South Australian School Dental Services, Ha DH, Spencer AJ, Slade GD

Is receipt of government benefits a useful predictor of caries among 5–10 year old children? K.F. Roberts-Thomson, D. Ha, A.J. Spencer, JA Armfield

International Union of Health Promotion and Education, Geneva, July 2010

Self-reported oral health among an Australian metropolitan homeless population: comparisons with population-level data, Eleanor J. Parker, Lisa M. Jamieson, Margaret A. Steffens, Peter R. Cathro, Richard M. Logan

Population Health Congress 2008

Dental Caries Events by Exposure to Fluoridated Water ─ A Survival Analysis, Pingzhou Liu, John Spencer, Loc Do and Jason Armfield

86th General Session and Exhibition of the IADR Toronto, Canada, July 5, 2008

Affluent neighborhoods protect tooth retention among adults with low income, Sanders AE, Turrell G, Slade GD

32nd Australian Dental Congress

Australia’s Dental Generations, The National Survey of Adult Oral Health, 2004–06, Gary D. Slade, A. John Spencer and Kaye Roberts-Thomson


	84th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 28 June - 1 July 2006, Brisbane, Australia. Australian dental service provision trends over a 20-year period. DS Brennan, AJ Spencer Challenges in caries analysis for longitudinal geriatric oral epidemiological studies. KD Carter, J Chalmers, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson, WM Thomson Caries incidence and increments in older South Australians. J Chalmers, KD Carter, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson, WM Thomson Oral health-related quality of life, fluorosis and caries among children. L Do, AJ Spencer Acidogenicity of salivary microflora as an indicator of caries risk. N Gully, D Brennan, A Rogers Age-related patterns of caries risk and caries rate among children. DH Ha, GD Slade, AJ Spencer Trends in hospital dental care receipt among Australian children. L Jamieson, K Roberts-Thomson Evaluation of a priority setting tool for triaging dental care. K Jones, GD Slade, AJ Spencer Trends in dental productivity between male and female dentists. S Mihailidis, AJ Spencer, DS Brennan Self-reported oral health and dental service utilisation in pregnancy. K Plutzer, MJ Keirse, AJ Spencer Toothbrushing frequency among the disabled: carer and residence factors. A Pradhan, AJ Spencer, GD Slade Oral health of young people in juvenile detention centres. K Roberts-Thomson, AJ Spencer Changing risk factors for fluorosis among South Australian children. AJ Spencer, L Do Social profile changes of first-year dentistry students in South Australia. JF Stewart, AJ Spencer

	45th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division) 25 September - 28 September 2005, Queenstown, New Zealand. Area-based socio-economic status and child oral health in South Australia JM Armfield* Fluorosis experience among South Australian children in 2002/03. L Do, AJ Spencer Oral health inequalities among Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. L Jamieson, K Roberts-Thomson, J Armfield Public dental service utilisation in South Australia. L Luzzi, AJ Spencer Perceived busyness and productivity of Australian private general dentists. S Mihailidis, AJ Spencer, DS Brennan Linear or threshold: what is the socioeconomic-oral health relationship? AE Sanders, GD Slade, AJ Spencer, G Turrell, W Marcenes Eleven-year change in oral health impacts among elderly South Australians. GD Slade, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson, J Chalmers, KD Carter Validation of child perception questionnaire in a general child population. AJ Spencer, L Do, A Jokovic Changes in dry mouth over time among dentate older people. WM Thomson, AJ Spencer, J Chalmers, KD Carter

	83rd General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 9 - 12 March 2005, Baltimore, USA Fluoride exposure, dental fluorosis and caries in South Australian children L Do, AJ Spencer Indigenous children and receipt of hospital dental care in Australia. L Jamieson, K Roberts-Thomson, JM Armfield Fluorosis among different birth cohorts of South Australian children. AJ Spencer*, L Do

	44th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division) 27 September - 29 September 2004, Nadi, Fiji. Dental fear in Australia: Exploring the vicious cycle JM Armfield, AJ Spencer, J Stewart Oral surgery in public dental services: Patient or provider driven? K Jones, L Luzzi, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson

	Colgate Australian Clinical Dental Research Centre Research Day 20 August 2004, Adelaide, Australia Plenary lecture: Equity issues in oral health and oral health research funding. J Spencer* Patterns of behaviour and service use among adults accessing public dental care. L Luzzi* Dental fear in Australia: who's afraid of the dentist? J Armfield* Does dental self-care explain the socioeconomic gradient in subjective oral health? A Sanders*

	82nd General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 10 - 13 March 2004, Hawaii, USA Trend of Caries of Six Age Cohorts in South Australia. LG Do, AJ Spencer, CR Koster, JM Armfield Clustering of Oral and General Risk Behaviours. AJ Spencer, DS Brennan

	43rd Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division) 28 September - 1 October 2003, Melbourne, Australia Caries experience among adult public dental patients: 1995-96 and 2001-02. DS Brennan, AJ Spencer Priority Setting in Emergency Public Dental Care in NSW, Australia. K Jones, A Patterson, L Luzzi, K Roberts-Thomson, AJ Spencer Understanding Public Dental Service Utilisation in South Australia. L Luzzi, AJ Spencer, KF Roberts-Thomson, K Jones The Evolution of a Multidisciplinary Oral Health Team For The New Millenium. KF Roberts-Thomson Longitudinal Study of Access to Dental Care in Young Adults. KF Roberts-Thomson, J Stewart, K Goldsmith Can Oral Health Influence Quality of Life? GD Slade Epidemiological Methods for Predicting Caries Using Past Caries Experience. GD Slade, S Petti Service Patterns among Dual-qualified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. KA Singh, DS Brennan, AJ Spencer, D Teusner, AN Goss Socioeconomic Gradients in Preventive Dental Health Behaviours. AJ Spencer, AE Sanders, J Stewart, K Carter Determining Dental Labour Force Estimates. DN Teusner, AJ Spencer, GD Slade

	35th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference 28 September - 1 October 2003, Brisbane, Australia Educational integration: a foundation strategy for increasing job satisfaction within the oral health team. K Jones*, D Teusner

	Colgate Australian Clinical Dental Research Centre Research Day 22 August 2003, Adelaide, Australia Understanding public dental service utilisation in South Australia. L Luzzi, AJ Spencer Efficiency in provision of private general dental services in Australia, 1983-1998. S Mihailidis, AJ Spencer Health promotion and early childhood caries. K Plutzer, AJ Spencer Integrating psychosocial factors into a conceptual framework to explain social variation in subjective oral health. A Sanders, AJ Spencer

	81st General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 25-28 June 2003, Goteborg, Sweden Increases in Caries Prevalence in Australian Children. JM Armfield, AJ Spencer Using Indicators of Relative Social Disadvantage in a Screening Tool to Prioritize Access to General Dental Care. K Jones, AF Patterson, L Luzzi, K Roberts-Thomson, A Spencer Longitudinal Study of Access to Dental Care in Young Adults. K. Roberts-Thomson, J Stewart, K Goldsmith Integrating Psychosocial Factors into Conceptual Frameworks Explaining Subjective Oral Health. A Sanders, AJ Spencer Influence of Occupational Prestige, Income and Education on Subjective Oral Health. GD Slade, PF Allen, AE Sanders, JG Steele, NM Nuttall Trends in Work Effort among Australian Dentists. AJ Spencer, DS Brennan

	42nd Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division) 28 September - 1 October 2003, Sydney, Australia Explaining oral health-related quality of life with work-related factors. AE Sanders*, AJ Spencer

	34th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference - Mobilising Public Health 29 September - 2 October 2002, Adelaide, Australia Participant loss in a longitudinal study of South Australian young adults. K Goldsmith* Educational integration: a foundation strategy for increasing job satisfaction within the oral health team. K Jones* Effect of waiting time on oral health and use of dental services. K Roberts-Thomson, M Hayes, S Buchanan, A Patterson Changes over time in the use of dental services among young adults. JF Stewart, KF Roberts-Thomson, KL Goldsmith

	80th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 6-9 March 2002, San Diego, USA A Relative Needs Index for Emergency Dental Care. K. Roberts-Thomson, L Luzzi, K Jones, A Spencer. Effect of Tooth Loss and Age on Oral Health Impacts. JG Steele, AE Sanders, GD Slade, S Lahti, PF Allen, NM Nuttall

	Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference: Consolidate, Innovate, Expand. 10-12 October 2001, Canberra, Australia A multi-method model for evaluating an innovative NSW priority oral health program - A case study. K Jones*, A Patterson, AJ Spencer, KF Roberts-Thomson, L Luzzi.

	33rd Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference - A Public Health Odyssey 23-26 September 2001, Sydney, Australia Insights into factors affecting recruitment and retention of Victorian dentists. K Jones, D Teusner, KF Roberts-Thomson, AJ Spencer. Job Satisfaction of Registered Victorian Dental Practitioners in 1999. L Luzzi, AJ Spencer, K Jones, D Teusner. Preventive services and risk assessment strategy in South Australian school children. A Polster, AJ Spencer. Awareness and implications of the private dental insurance rebate. A Puzio, JF Stewart, KD Carter, AJ Spencer. Oral health - basic necessity or optional extra? KF Roberts-Thomson. Social determinants of oral health. A Sanders, AJ Spencer. Oral health and access to dental care - changes over the late 1990s. JF Stewart*, KD Carter, AJ Spencer, KF Roberts-Thomson.

	Dental Hygienists' Association of Australia 15th International Symposium on Dental Hygiene 2-5 August 2001, Sydney, Australia Australian Dental Hygienist Labour Force. DN Teusner*, KF Roberts-Thomson, FSP Szuster.

	79th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 27-30 June 2001, Chiba, Japan Risk and service provision among South Australian school children. A Narayanan, AJ Spencer. Periodontal desease among Vietnamese middle-aged adults. GL Do, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson, VT Tran, DH Trinh, HD Ha.

	30th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the AADR March 7-10, 2001 7-10 March 2001, Chicago, USA Parental satisfaction with school-based dental care in South Australia. K Roberts-Thomson*, L Luzzi, R Mathew.


	84th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 28 June - 1 July 2006, Brisbane, Australia. Australian dental service provision trends over a 20-year period. DS Brennan, AJ Spencer Challenges in caries analysis for longitudinal geriatric oral epidemiological studies. KD Carter, J Chalmers, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson, WM Thomson Caries incidence and increments in older South Australians. J Chalmers, KD Carter, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson, WM Thomson Oral health-related quality of life, fluorosis and caries among children. L Do, AJ Spencer Acidogenicity of salivary microflora as an indicator of caries risk. N Gully, D Brennan, A Rogers Age-related patterns of caries risk and caries rate among children. DH Ha, GD Slade, AJ Spencer Trends in hospital dental care receipt among Australian children. L Jamieson, K Roberts-Thomson Evaluation of a priority setting tool for triaging dental care. K Jones, GD Slade, AJ Spencer Trends in dental productivity between male and female dentists. S Mihailidis, AJ Spencer, DS Brennan Self-reported oral health and dental service utilisation in pregnancy. K Plutzer, MJ Keirse, AJ Spencer Toothbrushing frequency among the disabled: carer and residence factors. A Pradhan, AJ Spencer, GD Slade Oral health of young people in juvenile detention centres. K Roberts-Thomson, AJ Spencer Changing risk factors for fluorosis among South Australian children. AJ Spencer, L Do Social profile changes of first-year dentistry students in South Australia. JF Stewart, AJ Spencer

	45th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division) 25 September - 28 September 2005, Queenstown, New Zealand. Area-based socio-economic status and child oral health in South Australia JM Armfield* Fluorosis experience among South Australian children in 2002/03. L Do, AJ Spencer Oral health inequalities among Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. L Jamieson, K Roberts-Thomson, J Armfield Public dental service utilisation in South Australia. L Luzzi, AJ Spencer Perceived busyness and productivity of Australian private general dentists. S Mihailidis, AJ Spencer, DS Brennan Linear or threshold: what is the socioeconomic-oral health relationship? AE Sanders, GD Slade, AJ Spencer, G Turrell, W Marcenes Eleven-year change in oral health impacts among elderly South Australians. GD Slade, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson, J Chalmers, KD Carter Validation of child perception questionnaire in a general child population. AJ Spencer, L Do, A Jokovic Changes in dry mouth over time among dentate older people. WM Thomson, AJ Spencer, J Chalmers, KD Carter

	83rd General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 9 - 12 March 2005, Baltimore, USA Fluoride exposure, dental fluorosis and caries in South Australian children L Do, AJ Spencer Indigenous children and receipt of hospital dental care in Australia. L Jamieson, K Roberts-Thomson, JM Armfield Fluorosis among different birth cohorts of South Australian children. AJ Spencer*, L Do

	44th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division) 27 September - 29 September 2004, Nadi, Fiji. Dental fear in Australia: Exploring the vicious cycle JM Armfield, AJ Spencer, J Stewart Oral surgery in public dental services: Patient or provider driven? K Jones, L Luzzi, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson

	Colgate Australian Clinical Dental Research Centre Research Day 20 August 2004, Adelaide, Australia Plenary lecture: Equity issues in oral health and oral health research funding. J Spencer* Patterns of behaviour and service use among adults accessing public dental care. L Luzzi* Dental fear in Australia: who's afraid of the dentist? J Armfield* Does dental self-care explain the socioeconomic gradient in subjective oral health? A Sanders*

	82nd General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 10 - 13 March 2004, Hawaii, USA Trend of Caries of Six Age Cohorts in South Australia. LG Do, AJ Spencer, CR Koster, JM Armfield Clustering of Oral and General Risk Behaviours. AJ Spencer, DS Brennan

	43rd Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division) 28 September - 1 October 2003, Melbourne, Australia Caries experience among adult public dental patients: 1995-96 and 2001-02. DS Brennan, AJ Spencer Priority Setting in Emergency Public Dental Care in NSW, Australia. K Jones, A Patterson, L Luzzi, K Roberts-Thomson, AJ Spencer Understanding Public Dental Service Utilisation in South Australia. L Luzzi, AJ Spencer, KF Roberts-Thomson, K Jones The Evolution of a Multidisciplinary Oral Health Team For The New Millenium. KF Roberts-Thomson Longitudinal Study of Access to Dental Care in Young Adults. KF Roberts-Thomson, J Stewart, K Goldsmith Can Oral Health Influence Quality of Life? GD Slade Epidemiological Methods for Predicting Caries Using Past Caries Experience. GD Slade, S Petti Service Patterns among Dual-qualified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. KA Singh, DS Brennan, AJ Spencer, D Teusner, AN Goss Socioeconomic Gradients in Preventive Dental Health Behaviours. AJ Spencer, AE Sanders, J Stewart, K Carter Determining Dental Labour Force Estimates. DN Teusner, AJ Spencer, GD Slade

	35th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference 28 September - 1 October 2003, Brisbane, Australia Educational integration: a foundation strategy for increasing job satisfaction within the oral health team. K Jones*, D Teusner

	Colgate Australian Clinical Dental Research Centre Research Day 22 August 2003, Adelaide, Australia Understanding public dental service utilisation in South Australia. L Luzzi, AJ Spencer Efficiency in provision of private general dental services in Australia, 1983-1998. S Mihailidis, AJ Spencer Health promotion and early childhood caries. K Plutzer, AJ Spencer Integrating psychosocial factors into a conceptual framework to explain social variation in subjective oral health. A Sanders, AJ Spencer

	81st General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 25-28 June 2003, Goteborg, Sweden Increases in Caries Prevalence in Australian Children. JM Armfield, AJ Spencer Using Indicators of Relative Social Disadvantage in a Screening Tool to Prioritize Access to General Dental Care. K Jones, AF Patterson, L Luzzi, K Roberts-Thomson, A Spencer Longitudinal Study of Access to Dental Care in Young Adults. K. Roberts-Thomson, J Stewart, K Goldsmith Integrating Psychosocial Factors into Conceptual Frameworks Explaining Subjective Oral Health. A Sanders, AJ Spencer Influence of Occupational Prestige, Income and Education on Subjective Oral Health. GD Slade, PF Allen, AE Sanders, JG Steele, NM Nuttall Trends in Work Effort among Australian Dentists. AJ Spencer, DS Brennan

	42nd Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division) 28 September - 1 October 2003, Sydney, Australia Explaining oral health-related quality of life with work-related factors. AE Sanders*, AJ Spencer

	34th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference - Mobilising Public Health 29 September - 2 October 2002, Adelaide, Australia Participant loss in a longitudinal study of South Australian young adults. K Goldsmith* Educational integration: a foundation strategy for increasing job satisfaction within the oral health team. K Jones* Effect of waiting time on oral health and use of dental services. K Roberts-Thomson, M Hayes, S Buchanan, A Patterson Changes over time in the use of dental services among young adults. JF Stewart, KF Roberts-Thomson, KL Goldsmith

	80th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 6-9 March 2002, San Diego, USA A Relative Needs Index for Emergency Dental Care. K. Roberts-Thomson, L Luzzi, K Jones, A Spencer. Effect of Tooth Loss and Age on Oral Health Impacts. JG Steele, AE Sanders, GD Slade, S Lahti, PF Allen, NM Nuttall

	Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference: Consolidate, Innovate, Expand. 10-12 October 2001, Canberra, Australia A multi-method model for evaluating an innovative NSW priority oral health program - A case study. K Jones*, A Patterson, AJ Spencer, KF Roberts-Thomson, L Luzzi.

	33rd Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference - A Public Health Odyssey 23-26 September 2001, Sydney, Australia Insights into factors affecting recruitment and retention of Victorian dentists. K Jones, D Teusner, KF Roberts-Thomson, AJ Spencer. Job Satisfaction of Registered Victorian Dental Practitioners in 1999. L Luzzi, AJ Spencer, K Jones, D Teusner. Preventive services and risk assessment strategy in South Australian school children. A Polster, AJ Spencer. Awareness and implications of the private dental insurance rebate. A Puzio, JF Stewart, KD Carter, AJ Spencer. Oral health - basic necessity or optional extra? KF Roberts-Thomson. Social determinants of oral health. A Sanders, AJ Spencer. Oral health and access to dental care - changes over the late 1990s. JF Stewart*, KD Carter, AJ Spencer, KF Roberts-Thomson.

	Dental Hygienists' Association of Australia 15th International Symposium on Dental Hygiene 2-5 August 2001, Sydney, Australia Australian Dental Hygienist Labour Force. DN Teusner*, KF Roberts-Thomson, FSP Szuster.

	79th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research 27-30 June 2001, Chiba, Japan Risk and service provision among South Australian school children. A Narayanan, AJ Spencer. Periodontal desease among Vietnamese middle-aged adults. GL Do, AJ Spencer, K Roberts-Thomson, VT Tran, DH Trinh, HD Ha.

	30th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the AADR March 7-10, 2001 7-10 March 2001, Chicago, USA Parental satisfaction with school-based dental care in South Australia. K Roberts-Thomson*, L Luzzi, R Mathew.