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Dental Health and Care Utilization

Dental Health and Care Utilization is a research topic within Periodontics. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 15.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on global oral health and dental caries, addressing topics such as the global burden of oral conditions, preventive measures, impact on quality of life, fluoride use, epidemiology, risk factors, and social determinants. It also explores remineralization techniques and the implications of oral health disparities.

  • Oral Health
  • Dental Caries
  • Global Burden
  • Prevention
  • Quality of Life
  • Fluoride
  • Epidemiology
  • Risk Factors
  • Social Determinants
  • Remineralization
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
15.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+48%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Dental Health and Care Utilization research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (929 and 911 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 India 929 works
  2. 2 United States 911 works
  3. 3 Brazil 901 works
  4. 4 China 528 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 388 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 362 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 304 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 279 works
  9. 9 Japan 274 works
  10. 10 Iran 225 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 18.2%United States: 17.9%Brazil: 17.7%China: 10.3%6 others listed: 35.9%18%largest
India929 · 18.2%United States911 · 17.9%Brazil901 · 17.7%China528 · 10.3%6 others listed1,833 · 35.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Dental Health and Care Utilization research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Saveetha University publishes the most Dental Health and Care Utilization research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and University of Hong Kong.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Saveetha University India 61 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São Paulo Brazil 55 works
  3. 3 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 46 works
  4. 4 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) Brazil 41 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Brazil 40 works
  6. 6 Stomatology Hospital China 36 works
  7. 7 King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia 34 works
  8. 8 Kamineni Institute of Dental Sciences India 33 works
  9. 9 Cairo University Egypt 33 works
  10. 10 Government Dental College and Hospital India 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dental Health and Care Utilization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dental Health and Care Utilization include Yousef Khader, Eduardo Bernabé and Ratilal Lalloo.

  1. 1 Yousef Khader 7.7k citations
  2. 2 Eduardo Bernabé 4.7k citations
  3. 3 Ratilal Lalloo 4.4k citations
  4. 4 Falk Schwendicke 3.9k citations
  5. 5 Kurt Binder 3.5k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Dental Health and Care Utilization research done?

The largest centres of Dental Health and Care Utilization research in 2022–2025 are São Paulo (Brazil), Chennai (India), London (United Kingdom) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nalgonda and Yangon.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 São Paulo Brazil 165 works
  2. 2 Chennai India 136 works
  3. 3 London United Kingdom 131 works
  4. 4 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 98 works
  5. 5 Tokyo Japan 79 works
  6. 6 Seoul South Korea 78 works
  7. 7 Istanbul Türkiye 77 works
  8. 8 Tehran Iran 69 works
  9. 9 Shanghai China 55 works
  10. 10 Bangkok Thailand 55 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NalgondaIN · 33.3 works71×
  2. YangonMM · 20.3 works24×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dental Health and Care Utilization than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dental Health and Care Utilization?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University and Alexandria University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 25.87%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Hong Kong: 46, 34.4%Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University: 18, 23.5%Alexandria University: 27, 30.7%Saveetha University: 62, 10.9%King Abdulaziz University: 34, 23.6%University of Oradea: 8, 39.6%Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara: 15, 18.6%Jazan University: 15, 14.6%University of Bern: 18, 37.6%Queen Mary University of London: 25, 25.2%University of Hong K…Alexandria UniversityImam Abdulrahman Bin…Saveetha University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 71.034.4%6.4×46 +50.0%
2Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Saudi Arabia 69.323.5%11.8×18 +596.5%
3Alexandria University Egypt 69.230.7%6.9×27 +205.0%
4Saveetha University India 64.410.9%7.7×62 +256.9%
5King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia 62.723.6%7.4×34 +80.3%
6University of Oradea Romania 61.039.6%11.4×8
7Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara Romania 60.518.6%20.3×15 +242.9%
8Jazan University Saudi Arabia 59.514.6%8.8×15 +198.5%
9University of Bern Switzerland 57.337.6%5.3×18 +22.3%
10Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom 56.025.2%7.5×25 +3.2%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Dental Health and Care Utilization research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 48% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dental Health and Care Utilization.

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Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.