Oral health survey guidance and toolkits
Supporting documentation, guidance and training resources to use when collecting oral health information for National Dental Epidemiology Programme (NDEP) surveys.
Applies to England
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The National Dental Epidemiology Programme (NDEP) carries out annual oral health surveys.
The current survey is on 5 year old schoolchildren for the academic year 2025 to 2026.
This guidance document contains links to:
- the protocols, resources, guidance notes and data collection tools for undertaking the NDEP oral health survey
- information on oral health survey training resources
Updates to this page
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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.
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New document uploaded - "Step-by-step sampling guide - age group specific"
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Added link to Dental Public Health Epidemiology workspace page.
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First published.