Delivering Better Oral Health: keep building evidence

Guidelines are systematically developed statements of best practice, informed by available evidence. Clinical practice guidelines play a particularly important role in contemporary healthcare facilitating busy clinicians to make sense of the large, diverse, and rapidly growing body of research evidence. Delivering Better Oral Health is now in its fourth version and available as an online digital resource. To ensure that we continually build our evidence base on prevention, areas for further research relating to dental caries, oral cancer, periodontal disease, tooth wear and behaviour change were identified and compiled retrospectively to inform future research. National research funding should, ideally, support addressing these priority areas as part of an integrated plan.