Moore, Deborah http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9965-9371
Allen, Thomas
Birch, Stephen
Tickle, Martin
Walsh, Tanya
Pretty, Iain A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
DH | NIHR | Public Health Research Programme (128533, 128533, 128533, 128533)
Article History
Received: 3 November 2020
Accepted: 4 November 2020
First Online: 21 January 2021
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study has been externally peer reviewed and approved by the funding organisation NIHR (NIHR 128533). Ethical approval was granted by North East–Tyne and Wear South NHS Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 20/NE/0144) on 27.07.2020. Permission for NHS BSA to access identifiable NHS dental records without consent (in order to select the cohort and undertake anonymisation) was been granted by the HRA Confidentiality Advisory Group (Ref: 20/CAG/0072) on 07.07.2020.