Eero Raittio

Practice‐Level Variation in the Provision of Subsidised Dental Services to Adult Danes in 2019: A Register‐Based Study Objectives The aim was to investigate practice-level variation in common dental diagnostic, preventive, and care services provided for Danish adults who underwent a dental examination. Methods Thi...

Our new article in @commdentoralepi.bsky.social

Practice-Level Variation in the Provision of Subsidised Dental Services to Adult Danes in 2019: A Register-Based Study

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Lääkärilehti Lääkärilehti on uuden lääketieteellisen ja terveydenhuoltoa koskevan tiedon levittäjä sekä suomalaisen lääkärikunnan koulutus- ja ammattijärjestölehti. Lääkärilehteä julkaisee Lääkäriliitto.

Our research summarized in @laakarilehti.fi

www.laakarilehti.fi/lehdet/8-202...

"Isotonic recalibration improved the AUC-ROC to 0.77 and enhanced calibration metrics, achieving an E-statistic of 1.00, CITL of 0.00 and a calibration slope of 1.00."
#prediction #EpiSky #predictionmodel

A blue bus

Let me tell you a story about the 'Blue Bus paradox' and a counter-intuitive quirk of using probability in legal proof... 🧵

Our new preprint shows considerable variation in the provision of subsidized treatments following dental examinations across dental clinics in Denmark.
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Our new preprint shows considerable variation in the provision of subsidized treatments following dental examinations across dental clinics in Denmark.
@au.dk @tandlaegerne.bsky.social @sundhedsmonitor.dk

If all you can do is review a paper by putting it into ChatGPT (or similar), maybe you shouldn't accept to review in the first place.

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Thanks Sergio! That is exactly what we’re hoping for.

Accepted version of manuscript available via
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Trends in dental health: Numbers of teeth, filled teeth, and decayed teeth among children and adults in Denmark 1989-2023: Aktuel Nordisk Odontologi: Vol 50, No 1 Idunn is Scandinavian University Press’ (Universitetsforlaget) digital publishing platform for academic journals and books.

We found a steady and continued improvement in the dental status of both children and adults in Denmark over the past decades.
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www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261...

If you openly acknowledge that you don't understand much about epidemiology or statistics, you should probably not agree to review such articles, and especially not make strong recommendations to accept or reject them in your evaluation.

Restricting Periodontal Treatment Frequency: Impact on Tooth Loss in Danish Adults Objective The study aimed to estimate the effect of a periodontal treatment policy that would restrict the receipt of periodontal therapy to no more than once every second year, on the 10-year risk ...

Our Christmas gift for everyone interested in dental public health and periodontology. 🇩🇰

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@profsarahbaker.bsky.social
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Restricting Periodontal Treatment Frequency: Impact on Tooth Loss in Danish Adults Objective The study aimed to estimate the effect of a periodontal treatment policy that would restrict the receipt of periodontal therapy to no more than once every second year, on the 10-year risk ...

Our Christmas gift for everyone interested in dental public health and periodontology. 🇩🇰

@commdentoralepi.bsky.social
@profsarahbaker.bsky.social
@aarhusuni.bsky.social

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Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025

Sounds interesting

Frontiers for Young Minds Frontiers for Young Minds is an open-access scientific journal written by scientists and reviewed by a board of kids and teens.

2. Frontiers for Young Minds

Now this is an excellent initiative. If you haven't heard of this, researchers write papers targeted at kids or teenagers. But the kicker is that your target audience co-peer reviews the paper! Usually, this is done collectively as a science class

Changes to the classification

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

Changes to the classification

I hope this is just the beginning. We need to be bold and deindex some more journals. @raittioe.bsky.social, I guess you know this agency. Is it ok? julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

Good decision, indeed. These journal ratings are used to grade publication production in the Finnish unis. Affects e.g. their funding from the state, also used in individual evaluations. So they likely have some impact locally 😊

Cost-effectiveness-analysis of oral health remotivation and reinstruction in nursing homes in a cluster-randomized controlled trial We conducted a cluster-randomized-controlled trial (cRCT) in 18 German nursing homes (NH) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of reinstruction and remo…

Cost-effectiveness-analysis of oral health remotivation and reinstruction in nursing homes in a cluster-randomized controlled trial

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A positive decision letter is a wonderful way to end the week. 🙏
Thanks for smooth process @profsarahbaker.bsky.social and the team @commdentoralepi.bsky.social

Stay tuned.
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@tandlaegerne.bsky.social

Annual reminder:

Is clinical prevention better than cure?
Maybe, maybe not.
doi.org/10.1016/S014...

And that we should trust the most 😬

Taking account the results of the study, I was also thinking what was the deception here after all?

Researchers struggled to get approval from an ethics committee. They planned to have healthy people visit dentists for examinations (but refuse X-rays and treatments).

But isn't that something the whole profession is calling for, as if there isn't a single patient who wouldn't benefit from it?

Overdiagnosis of dental caries in South Korea: a pseudo-patient study - BMC Oral Health Background To evaluates the tendency of South Korean dentists to over-diagnose clinically healthy teeth in pseudo-patients. Methods We conducted a pseudo-patient, cross-sectional study in 196 private ...

If you don’t have symptoms or dental disease history, think twice before going to a dentist?

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Overdiagnosis of dental caries in South Korea: a pseudo-patient study - BMC Oral Health Background To evaluates the tendency of South Korean dentists to over-diagnose clinically healthy teeth in pseudo-patients. Methods We conducted a pseudo-patient, cross-sectional study in 196 private ...

If you don’t have symptoms or dental disease history, think twice before going to a dentist?

bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

As more people are moving over here I thought it was time to reshare the oral and dental health starter pack

Please ping with if you want to be added - or taken off -

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Reviewing a manuscript that includes several senior authors, who seem not to have reviewed the manuscript thoroughly themselves, is very unfortunate. For the reviewers/editors, but particularly for the junior members of the author team.