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Item Systematic review of factors influencing oral healthrelated quality of life in children in Africa(2019-07-24) Kolisa Y; Yengopal V; Igumbor J; Nqcobo CBackground: Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) is influenced by cultural and societal context. Existing OHRQoL children measurement tools have been conceptualised in high-income countries. Probing whether the factors influencing OHRQoL are context-reliant in the African setting is necessary and is the purpose of the current review. Aim: To investigate if the factors influencing OHRQoL are context-reliant. Methods: Seven databases were searched using search terms (‘oral health’; and ‘quality of life’, ‘health-related quality of life’, ‘patient-reported outcomes’, ‘well-being’; and ‘child*’, ‘adolescents’, ‘teen*’, ‘youth’; and ‘determinants’, ‘factors’, ‘predictors’; and ‘oral health quality of life tools/instruments/scales’; and ‘Africa*’). Abstracts identified were exported to a reference software manager. Three of the authors used specific selection criteria to review, firstly, 307 abstracts and, secondly, 30 full papers. Data were extracted from these papers using a pre-designed data extraction form, after which quantitative synthesis of data was performed. Results: Key factors influencing OHRQoL followed an existing conceptual framework where environmental and individual factors in the form of socio-economic status (SES), area of residence and children psyche status, and the presence of any oral condition other than dental caries were reported among child populations in Africa. Conclusion: There is preliminary evidence to suggest an association between individual factors such as children’s psyche and oral problems, excluding dental caries, and environmental determinants such as area of residence and SES in children’s OHRQoL in African children. The finding that dental caries was not a key factor in child-oral health is unexpected. There seemed to be a contextual viewpoint underpinning the current OHRQoL frameworks and OHRQoL was context-reliant.Item Anticipated changes in caries prevalence in South Africa(1979) Cleaton-Jones, P.; Richardson, B. D.; Walker, A. R. P.Item Analysis of attendance rates at Soweto dental clinics 1995 - 2002(2004) Harkison, B. N.; Cleaton-Jones, P. E.BACKGROUND: Patient attendance rates at Soweto dental clinics increased during the year after the implementation of free primary oral health care in 1995. OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to examine if the attendance rates continued to increase between April 1995 and March 2002. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Monthly clinic records were used to record casual (pain and sepsis treatment) and booked patient attendance (restorative, prosthetic and orthodontic treatment) and number of dental operators in the nine primary health care clinics and one hospital clinic in Soweto. Data were analysed with SAS and Prism software. RESULTS: Total patient attendances in the primary health care clinics significantly increased from 6,161 in 1995 to 10,519 in 2002 (P<0.05) due to an increase in casual patients Booked patients decreased and patients treated per operator increased. In the hospital clinic the casual patient attendances decreased but booked patients significantly increased (P<0.005). CONCLUSIONS: Patient attendance rates increased between 1995 and 2002 with an increase in dental operator workload.Item The bearing of dietary sucrose on the deciduous dentition of pre-schoolchildren in the Traansvaal(1979) Richardson, B. D.; Cleaton-Jones, P. E.Item Dental health related to oral hygiene and academic instruction in a group of dental students(1963) Cleaton-Jones, P.Item Black and White pregnant women in Johannesburg, South Africa(1984) Rudolph, M. J.; Cleaton-Jones, P. E.Item Oral health in kwaZulu. A pathfinder survey(1983) Cleaton-Jones, P.; Vickers, A. R.; Vickers, K. R.