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| J M ArmfieldSummaryAffiliation: University of Adelaide Country: Australia Publications
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Consumption of nonpublic water: implications for children's caries experienceJason M Armfield
Dental School, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 32:283-96. 2004..CONCLUSION: Recommendations are made for the addition of fluoride to bottled water, especially with regard to the oral health of younger children...- Community effectiveness of fissure sealants and the effect of fluoridated water consumptionJ M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Dental School, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia
Community Dent Health 24:4-11. 2007..This study investigated the effectiveness of fissure sealants in a community-based programme and the relationship between fissure sealants effectiveness and exposure to fluoridated water... 
Water fluoridation and the association of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and dental caries in Australian childrenJason M Armfield
Jason M Armfield, A John Spencer, Kaye F Roberts Thomson, and Katrina Plastow are with the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Am J Public Health 103:494-500. 2013..However, increased exposure to fluoridated public water helped ameliorate the association between SSB consumption and dental decay. These results reconfirm the benefits of community water fluoridation for oral health...- A comparison of three continuous scales used to determine the prevalence of clinically significant dental fearJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 39:554-63. 2011..To assess the level of agreement and concordance of three different dental anxiety and fear scales and determine whether using commensurate cut-points reduces discrepancies in the estimated prevalence of high dental fear... - Quarter of a century of change: caries experience in Australian children, 1977-2002J M Armfield
School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust Dent J 53:151-9. 2008..The aims of this study were to examine the state of child oral health in Australia in 2002 and to explore longer term trends across the quarter of a century of recorded surveillance activity... - Are people with dental fear under-represented in oral epidemiological surveys?Jason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, 122 Frome Road, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 44:495-500. 2009..Dental phobia is associated with poorer dental attendance so epidemiological surveys requiring participants to undertake a dental examination may result in an under-representation of participants with high dental fear... - Changing inequalities in the distribution of caries associated with improving child oral health in AustraliaJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
J Public Health Dent 69:125-34. 2009..This study aimed to document the changing distribution of and inequalities in dental caries in Australian children across the 25-year period from 1977 to 2002... - Dental fear and adult oral health in AustraliaJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 37:220-30. 2009..This study aimed to investigate the association between dental fear and both dental caries and periodontal indicators... - Risk perception and water fluoridation support and opposition in AustraliaJason Mathew Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide
J Public Health Dent 70:58-66. 2010..Our objectives were to determine whether risk perceptions reflecting various "outrage" factors are associated with water fluoridation support and opposition... - Development and psychometric evaluation of the Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C+)Jason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia
Psychol Assess 22:279-87. 2010..The IDAF-4C+ is based on strong theoretical underpinnings, yet the scale is practical enough for application across a variety of potential uses... - Towards a better understanding of dental anxiety and fear: cognitions vs. experiencesJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, SA, Australia
Eur J Oral Sci 118:259-64. 2010..Perceptions of uncontrollability, unpredictability, dangerousness, and disgustingness were superior predictors of dental fear compared with negative dental experiences... - How do we measure dental fear and what are we measuring anyway?Jason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Oral Health Prev Dent 8:107-15. 2010..This is of concern given that these scales, by their very nature, serve to define the concept they aim to measure... 
Community effectiveness of public water fluoridation in reducing children's dental diseaseJason Mathew Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Public Health Rep 125:655-64. 2010..This study compared children's decay experience and prevalence between areas with and without water fluoridation in Australia...- The extent and nature of dental fear and phobia in AustraliaJ M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust Dent J 55:368-77. 2010..This study presents updated and refined dental fear and phobia prevalence estimates in Australia as well as information on the nature of dental fear and phobia... - A clinician guide to patients afraid of dental injections and numbnessJason M Armfield
Department of Dental Public Health Sciences and the Dental Fears Research Clinic, University of Washington, Box 357475, Seattle, WA 98195 7475, USA
SAAD Dig 27:33-9. 2011..Associations with dental fear and avoidance as well as negative experiences and treatment needs were also explored... - Australian population norms for the Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C)J M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust Dent J 56:16-22. 2011..The aim of this study was to provide Australian norms for the IDAF-4C using percentile ranks and to examine associations between scores and individual-level characteristics, dental avoidance and fear of pain... - Community water fluoridation support and opposition in AustraliaJ M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Community Dent Health 28:40-6. 2011.... - Exploring the associations between somatization and dental fear and dental visitingJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Eur J Oral Sci 119:288-93. 2011..The results were consistent with the hypothesized role of somatization in the development of dental fear. Further investigation of how somatization is related to dental fear and dental-service utilization appears warranted... - A preliminary investigation of the relationship of dental fear to other specific fears, general fearfulness, disgust sensitivity and harm sensitivityJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 36:128-36. 2008..This exploratory study, therefore, investigated the associations between dental fear and 67 other specific fears, general fearfulness, disgust sensitivity and harm sensitivity... - Manipulating perceptions of spider characteristics and predicted spider fear: evidence for the cognitive vulnerability model of the etiology of fearJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
J Anxiety Disord 21:691-703. 2007..The overall findings are consistent with the cognitive vulnerability model, with cognitive perceptions of an object or situation seen as causal determinants of the fear associated with the stimulus... - Cognitive vulnerability: a model of the etiology of fearJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
Clin Psychol Rev 26:746-68. 2006..The model offers parsimonious explanations for the various characteristics of specific fears and phobias... - Dental fear in Australia: who's afraid of the dentist?J M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Dental School, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia
Aust Dent J 51:78-85. 2006..This study aimed to describe both the prevalence of dental fear in Australia and to explore the relationship between dental fear and a number of demographic, socio-economic, oral health, insurance and service usage variables... - Public water fluoridation and dental health in New South WalesJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 29:477-83. 2005..To evaluate whether access to fluoridated public water in New South Wales (NSW) is related to both a reduction in caries experience within NSW regions and to better dental health for disadvantaged children... - An experimental study of the role of vulnerability related perceptions in spider fear: comparing an imaginal and in vivo encounterJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
J Anxiety Disord 22:222-32. 2008..The idea that perceptions of spiders as uncontrollable, unpredictable and dangerous are causally related to spider fear was supported with in vivo exposure being a stronger modality for fear modification than imaginal exposure... - Socioeconomic inequalities in child oral health: a comparison of discrete and composite area-based measuresJason M Armfield
Send correspondence and reprint requests to Jason AIHW Dental Statistics and Research Unit, Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, The University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
J Public Health Dent 67:119-25. 2007..Comparisons were also made of the discrete SES measures and the Socio-Economic Index for Areas (SEIFA) composite index in explaining child caries experience... - Understanding animal fears: a comparison of the cognitive vulnerability and harm-looming modelsJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
BMC Psychiatry 7:68. 2007..Also assessed were the perceived loomingness, prior familiarity, and negative evaluation of the animals as well as possible conditioning experiences... - When public action undermines public health: a critical examination of antifluoridationist literatureJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust New Zealand Health Policy 4:25. 2007.... - Intra-oral distribution of caries in South Australian childrenJason M Armfield
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, South Australia
Aust Dent J 51:268-71. 2006 - Exposure to water fluoridation and caries incrementA J Spencer
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, South Australia
Community Dent Health 25:12-22. 2008.... - Relative effects of pre- and posteruption water fluoride on caries experience of permanent first molarsK A Singh
Dental School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Adelaide University, South Australia
J Public Health Dent 63:11-9. 2003..However, the maximum caries-preventive effects of fluoridated water were achieved by high pre- and posteruption exposure... - A retrospective longitudinal study of caries development in an Australian Aboriginal birth cohortL M Jamieson
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, S A, Australia
Caries Res 44:415-20. 2010..The findings indicate that Aboriginal young adults in this birth cohort experience a disproportionate amount of dental disease relative to their non-indigenous counterparts, and that this pattern is consistent across the life course... - Oral health inequalities among indigenous and nonindigenous children in the Northern Territory of AustraliaLisa M Jamieson
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 34:267-76. 2006..To describe oral health inequalities among indigenous and nonindigenous children in the Northern Territory of Australia using an area-based measure of socioeconomic status (SES)... - The role of location in indigenous and non-indigenous child oral healthLisa M Jamieson
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, The University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
J Public Health Dent 66:123-30. 2006..The association of Indigenous status and residential location with caries prevalence, severity and unmet treatment need was examined... - Indigenous and non-indigenous child oral health in three Australian states and territoriesLisa M Jamieson
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, The University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
Ethn Health 12:89-107. 2007..To explore the prevalence and severity of Indigenous and non-Indigenous child dental disease in relation to age, sex, residential location and socio-economic status in three Australian states and territories... - Indigenous child oral health at a regional and state levelLisa M Jamieson
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, South Australia, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 43:117-21. 2007..To compare the dental disease experience of Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in South Australia's mid-north region (regional area) and to assess Indigenous oral health differences at a regional- and state-level... - Dental caries trends among indigenous and non-indigenous Australian childrenL M Jamieson
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, The University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
Community Dent Health 24:238-46. 2007..To examine trends in dental caries among indigenous and non-indigenous children in an Australian territory... - The extent of water fluoridation coverage in AustraliaJason M Armfield
Aust N Z J Public Health 30:581-2. 2006