National Survey of Adult Oral Health

全国成人口腔健康调查将对澳大利亚所有州和地区的7500名15岁或以上的人进行访谈和牙科检查。它将提供全国口腔健康状况的快照，包括牙齿脱落、蛀牙和牙龈疾病的水平。这项调查将于2004- 2004年进行，由阿德莱德大学澳大利亚人口口腔健康研究中心的研究人员主持。它将与联邦和州-领土卫生部门合作进行。在澳大利亚第一次全国口腔健康调查17年后，这项新的调查将监测所有澳大利亚人口腔健康的变化。该调查将确定在口腔疾病方面处于特别不利地位的群体，并将寻找增加口腔疾病风险的生活方式和社区一级的危害。这项研究将比较20世纪60年代出生的成年人在氟化物一代之前和之后出生的人的牙齿健康模式，当时澳大利亚大部分首都城市的供水都开始含氟。这项研究旨在自动获取未来十年7500名研究参与者的国家总体健康统计数据。研究人员将利用这些信息来研究在其他国家观察到的牙龈疾病和心脏病之间的联系。调查结果将为监测实现国家卫生目标的进展情况提供基础，并提供信息，帮助将牙科卫生服务引导到21世纪。

The National Survey of Adult Oral Health will interview and dentally examine 7,500 people aged 15 or more across all States and Territories of Australia. It will provide a national snap-shot of the nation's oral health, including levels of tooth loss, dental decay and gum disease. The survey, to be conducted in 2004-04, will be directed by researchers at the Australian Research Center for Population Oral Health at The University of Adelaide. It will be conducted in collaboration with the Commonwealth and State-Territory health departments. Occurring 17 years after the first National Oral Health Survey of Australia, this new survey will monitor changes in oral health among all Australians. The survey will identify groups at particular disadvantage in terms of oral diseases, and it will search for lifestyle and community-level hazards that increase the risk of oral disorders. The study will have a compare patterns of dental health among people born before and after the fluoride generation of adults born in the 1960s when most of Australia's capital city water supplies became fluoridated. The study has been designed to automatically capture national statistics on general health among the 7,500 study participants over the next decade. The researchers will use that information to study links that have been observed in other countries between gum disease and heart disease. Results from the survey will provide the basis for monitoring progress towards national health targets and provide information to help direct dental health services into the 21st century.