The Scottish Health Boards' Dental Epidemiological Programme (SHBDEP).

This was a series of annual surveys of key age groups of Scottish children established in 1987 as a joint venture between the Scottish Health Boards and the Dental Health Services Research Unit at the University of Dundee.

These surveys provided a useful and reliable picture of Scottish children's oral health for thirteen years. However, variations at regional level in interpretation of the Data Protection Act and methods of obtaining consent resulted in the comparability of the data being compromised and the last national survey took place in 1999/2000.

Over the years SHBDEP built up a reliable data set which was crucial to the planning of dental services at both national and local levels.

In  2003  the revised National Dental Inspection Programme was instituted.

Page last edited: 21 September 2008

Links from Scottish Dental

Title	Source	Type
Scottish Health Board's Dental Epidemiological Programme reports 1994-1999 Links to these reports. View details	Dundee University	Website
Aggregated Data SHBDEP 1987-1999 Web site containing aggregated data from the Scottish Health Boards' Dental Epidemiology Programme. View details	Dundee University	Website
Maps of % dmft=0 for 5 year olds 1987-1999 MSHEBDEP maps of % dmft=0 for 5 year olds 1987-1999. View details	Dundee University	Website
Maps of mean dmft / DMFT SHBDEP maps of mean dmft / DMFT 1987-1999 View details	Dundee University	Website