Other services
Oral Health Promotion
The Oral Health Promotion Team is not
currently accepting requests for advice or
training.
Regretfully, we are unable to provide oral health
education to schools. There are many good quality
resources available via the internet which can be used to develop
sessions or assemblies for school-age children.
Epidemiology
The PCDS is commissioned to conduct epidemiological survey work
for the local authorities of Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North
Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset. Most years we visit
primary schools to examine children's teeth as part of the National
Dental Epidemiology Programme. Some years we also take part in the
national Child or Adult Dental Health Surveys. All of these
survey results are published, and they often generate headlines in
the national press. In the last survey of 5 year olds (2024),
Bristol came in at better than the national average for dental
decay (17.8% of 5 year olds had some experience of decay, compared
to 22.4% for England as a whole), but this number is slightly worse
than in previous years. Click here
for further details. Other recent surveys have been of 3 year olds
(2020), which was curtailed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Year
6 children (2022-23), which was published in 2024.
In the year 2024-25 we are participating in the National Dental
Epidemiology Programme and examining older adults in care
homes.
Page last reviewed: September 2023
