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Introduction and background
The 2021 Adult Oral Health Survey (AOHS) was carried out in February and March 2021 with a representative sample of adults in England aged 16 and over. Data was collected using self-completion questionnaires, completed in web and paper form. A total of 6,343 responses were received.
The survey was commissioned by Public Health England, now the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. The survey was carried out by a consortium led by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), and includes the University of Birmingham, King’s College London, the School of Dental Sciences at Newcastle University, the Dental Public Health Group and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The University of Leeds and School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield also provided guidance and support to the survey and its design.
The AOHS is the latest in a series of nationally representative surveys of adults’ oral and dental health in England. The first Adult Dental Health (ADH) surveys took place in 1968 and 1978 in England and Wales. These surveys were carried out by consortia of academic dental centres, led by the Government Social Surveys Unit in 1968 and the Office for Population, Censuses and Surveys thereafter. Similar surveys were carried out in Scotland in 1972 and in Northern Ireland in 1979.
The coverage of the surveys in 1988 and 1998 was extended to Scotland and Northern Ireland. In 2009, the survey covered adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and was carried out by a consortium led by ONS, and including the Universities of Birmingham, Dundee, Cardiff and Newcastle, UCL, NatCen and the Northern Ireland Social Research Agency (NISRA).
All these surveys collected data through face-to-face interviews with adults in their own homes, followed by an oral examination by a qualified dental practitioner. The content of…
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