{"id":1271,"date":"2017-02-08T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2017-04-03T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:51:08","slug":"improving-the-oral-health-of-children-approaches-to-inequalities-prevention-and-the-role-of-the-paediatrician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2017\/02\/08\/improving-the-oral-health-of-children-approaches-to-inequalities-prevention-and-the-role-of-the-paediatrician\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving the oral health of children: Approaches to inequalities, prevention and the role of the paediatrician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/203068522\" width=\"540\" height=\"610\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 08\/02\/2017\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><br \/>\nDental decay is one of the most preventable and consequential conditions of childhood. The health of children\u2019s teeth is an important public health and clinical issue for dental and non-dental health practitioners alike, and has far reaching effects throughout life. For example, extraction of teeth is one of the most common reasons children receive a general anaesthetic, and poor oral health is linked to heart disease, poor outcomes in diabetes, stroke, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and chronic kidney disease. Some children are at higher risk of poor oral health, including children living in poverty, and children with chronic, complex illnesses and developmental disabilities.<br \/>\n<strong>Speakers<br \/>\nProfessor Sharon Goldfeld<\/strong> is a paediatrician at the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital\u2019s Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) and Co-Group leader of Child Health Policy, Equity and Translation at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. She has a decade of experience in state government as a senior policymaker. Her research focuses on investigating, testing and translating sustainable policy relevant solutions that eliminate inequities for Australia\u2019s children, and this includes oral health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Kerrod Hallett<\/strong> is Director of Dentistry at the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital. Originally from Queensland, he trained in research and dentistry in the US and Melbourne, before being on staff at RCH for 21 years. His research interests include risk factors for early childhood caries, children with chronic medical conditions, and the clinical application of antimicrobial agents to control dental caries in children.<\/p>\n<p>We are most grateful to Kerrod for stepping up after our overseas speaker, Dr Patricia Lucas\u2019 flight from Singapore was delayed yesterday on her way to Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dental decay is one of the most preventable and consequential conditions of childhood. The health of children\u2019s teeth is an important public health and clinical issue for dental and non-dental health practitioners alike, and has far reaching effects throughout life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12678,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-oral-health","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}