LINKS - all links valid as of 1.8.2007

RECENT ADDITIONS

The U.S national oral health conference
http://www.nationaloralhealthconference.com
Dental Epidemiology Resources
http://www.library.tufts.edu/hsl/education/dentalepiwed.html
American Association of Public Health Dentistry; members have full access online to the Journal of Public Health Dentistry
http://www.aaphd.org
The WWW Virtual Library: Medicine and Health: Epidemiology http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html
Oral Health & Preventive Dentistry - Online access to full text articles is granted to subscribers of the printed journal only http://ohpd.quintessenz.de/
Direct searchable access to EU Law and the Official Journal http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm
National Library of Medicine has an up-to-date set of topics and links under the banner "Mouth and Teeth" at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mouthandteeth.html

Infection Control Sites

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/default.htm
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.
http://www.apic.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
CDC, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/index.html
CDC, Division of Oral Health, Infection Control in Dental Settings
http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/infectioncontrol/index.htm
CDC, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr
Dental Council
http://www.dentalcouncil.ie
EPA, Antimicrobial Chemicals
http://www.epa.gov/oppad001/chemregindex.htm
FDA Food and Drug Administration home page dentalcouncilhttp://www.fda.gov/
Immunization Action Coalition
http://www.immunize.org/acip
Infectious Diseases Society of America
http://www.idsociety.org/PG/toc.htm
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Dentistry
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/dentistry/index.html
Bloodborne Pathogens and Needlestick Prevention
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/bloodbornepathogens/index.html
Organization for Safety and Asepsis Procedures
http://www.osap.org/

General

World Health Organisation: WHO site has general information on world health, publications, surveys, links to WHO collaborating centres, including the Oral Health Research Centre at Cork University Dental School and Hospital
WHO Oral Health Country Profiles: Data on global prevalences of dental diseases, manpower, services, etc
Centres for Disease Control: Centres for Disease Control publishes MMWR (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report) which is available online
American Dental Association: The ADA site is replete with useful clinical information from Amalgam to Waterlines, including Bloodborne Diseases, Infection Control, Biofilms, Periodontics
Intute (formerly OMNI): Medical information portal, free online service providing access to web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.
British Dental Health Foundation: Compare and contrast with the Irish equivalent
NHSDirect: Yes/No guide to whether you need to see a doctor for the condition you describe. Articles and audio clips on wide range of medical and healthy lifestyle issues
Medical Protection Society: Relevant articles listed on consent, electronic patient records
The Wellcome Trust: The Wellcome Trust offers an extensive range of books, journals, databases archives and manuscripts to the public free of charge. The focus is on science policy, UK and International research policy, research funding and management, research ethics and evidence based decision-making.
Irish Medicines Board: The Pharmacovigilance Unit issues the Drug Safety Newsletter, and a very useful Guidance Note for Healthcare Professionals
DHSSPS: Northern Ireland Adverse Incident Centre (NIAIC): Safety Action Notices, Advice Notices and Hazard Notices, archived fom 1995
Office for Health Management: This resource is currently transforming to www.hseland.ie. Watch this space
Toxins and plagues: Links to information on anthrax, smallpox, radiation, botulism, plague, sarin, mustard gas, VX and ricin on CDC

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Journals

Journal of the Canadian Dental Association (L'Association Dentaire Canadienne): Freely-available journal - no subscription required.
British Dental Journal: BDJ
British Medical Journal: BMJ, which often has articles on Health Informatics and medicine on the Net
Dental Update: Subscribers to Dental Update have full access to this site

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Children's Services

Oral and facial signs of child abuse: Information provided by New Jersey Dental School
Presenting features of child abuse: This website was commissioned and funded by the UK Department of Health for dental teams working in primary care in England to help recognise the presenting features of child abuse.
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry: Good source of paediatric knowledge on the Net
Special Care resources from the NIDCR
: Contains links to publications, clinical trials and health information

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CDE

Biomaterials Properties Database, University of Michigan School of Dentistry: The tables are updated periodically from "Dental Materials and Their Selection", 2nd ed., 1997
University of Iowa: Multiple examples of oral pathology indexed by lesion
University of Western Ontario Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry: Verbal and slide identification multiple choice questions by Dr. K. A. Galil BDS.D.Oral.Surg.,Ph.D.,FAGD.,FADI., Cert.Periodontist, University of Western Ontario, Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology

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Health Informatics

GHIFT: Gateway to Health Informatics for Teaching
Informatics and Epidemiology from OHSU: The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology is an academic and research department in the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine.
Informatics Review: Online Journal of Health Informatics
Medical Record Institute: Centre for the Advancement of Electronic Health Records
NHS UK: As of April 1st 2005 the NHS Information Authority ceased operation. Its work continues at NHS Connecting for Health. The Health and Social Care Information Centre is also involved at www.ic.nhs.uk

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Community Dentistry

Dundee University: European Association for Dental Public Health
BASCD: British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry
Community Dental Health: Community Dental Health is the journal of the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry and the European Association of Dental Public Health
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology: Edited by Brian Burt, the aim of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology is to serve as a forum for scientifically based information in community dentistry. The scope is broad, ranging from original studies in epidemiology, behavioral sciences, and health services research to methodological reports in program planning, implementation and evaluation.
NOHC: The U.S national oral healthconference website has presentations in PDF format going back a number of years.

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Evidence-based Dentistry

Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry: Evidence-based dentistry at Oxford University
Evidence-Based Dentistry: Quarterly Journal of Evidence-Based Dentistry, available by subscription both hardcopy and online
Cochrane Collaboration: Cochrane Collaboration
Health on the Net: One of the original and better Health on the Net sites
School of Health and Related Resources: Netting the evidence - a ScHARR introduction at Sheffield University
SIGN: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network - yet another acronym

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Oral Health Promotion

NIDCR: NIDCR Oral Health Promotion, Risk Factors, and Molecular Epidemiology branch
Dentalwisdom
: Simon Nangle's cool studio. Downloadable animations for dentist and patient. Clever, innovative - one to bookmark

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Orthodontics

Journal of Orthodontics: The British Journal of Orthodontics is now just the Journal Of Orthodontics
European Journal of Orthodontics: The European Journal of Orthodontics requires subscription/log-in
Australian Society of Orthodontics: Australian Society of Orthodontics

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Quality Assurance

NICE: National Institute for Clinical Effectiveness
QUICK
: The QUality Information ChecKlist (it seems only right to juxtapose NICE and QUICK!)

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Fluoridation

Fluoridation Forum: Up to the minute Fluoridation Forum reports, documents and minutes of meetings
YORK CRD: Centre for reviews and dissemination - FLUORIDATION REVIEW RESULTS
National Center for Fluoridation, USA: Established in 1998 as central repository for reliable, timely and scientifically-based information on all aspects of community water fluoridation