Document is current

Article History

Received: 14 September 2017

Accepted: 5 June 2018

First Online: 11 July 2018

Authors’ information

: All authors except DB are based at the Community Oral Health Section at the University of Glasgow’s Dental School. WG is a research fellow in the evaluation of child oral health demonstration programmes, AS is a senior lecturer in Statistics and DC and LM are professors in Dental Public Health. All authors based at Glasgow University are members of a larger evaluation team funded to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of Childsmile. DB is a senior research fellow in the dental health services research unit at the University of Dundee.

: The West of Scotland Research Ethics Service advised that under the terms of the governance arrangements for research ethics committees in the UK, NHS ethical review was not required. Glasgow University Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences (MVLS) Faculty Ethics committee approved the evaluation of Childsmile of which this study comprises one component. NHS clinical governance approval was obtained. Respondents were informed as to how the information they provided would be used and consented through participation.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.