Oral health survey guidance
General guidance for undertaking oral health surveys.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
These documents support the National Dental Epidemiology Programme (NDEP) oral health surveys.
Survey training resources are available to download from the Dental Public Health Epidemiology workspace page.
Last updated 26 October 2022 + show all updates
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Added link to Dental Public Health Epidemiology workspace page.
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First published.
Update history
2025-08-20 16:36
Updated to move all documents to the ‘Dental public health epidemiology’ workspace – see the guidance documents for location details. Added files for the ‘Oral health survey of 5 year old schoolchildren 2025 to 2026: toolkit’ and updated the ‘Training and calibration guide for oral health surveys of children’ document to include the collection of obvious enamel caries.
2023-06-28 12:43
New document uploaded – “Step-by-step sampling guide – age group specific”
2022-10-26 09:47
Added link to Dental Public Health Epidemiology workspace page.
2022-09-28 13:24
First published.