About Us
DHSRU's position within a strategic overview of Clinical Dentistry at Dundee
The Dental Health Services Research Unit was founded in 1979 at the University of Dundee following an open competition among Scottish Universities. The Chief Scientist Office of the day recognised the need for research to map Scotland's poor record of dental health more clearly and to provide an evidence base for the measures employed by the NHS in Scotland to prevent and manage oral disease.
DHSRU established itself in the early 1980s with a series of classic papers reporting analyses from longitudinal studies of routine NHS dental care and pioneering work in dental treatment decision making. Professor Nigel Pitts has been Unit Director since 1985 and has built on these foundations to establish DHSRU as a recognised centre across a range of dental health services research. The Unit has evolved to meet the changing needs of the NHS in Scotland and has made long term contributions in the areas of dental epidemiology and public health, caries diagnosis and management and, in particular, to practice-based dental research and evidence based dentistry.
DHSRU remains unique in dentistry, in the UK and internationally, by maintaining a long term portfolio of projects focusing on matters of importance to health services and providers of routine dental care. The rich history and 'corporate memory' of its core staff, combined with a mature network of local and international collaborators, enables DHSRU to exploit synergies and deliver a range of dental research in key priority areas to high methodological standards.
Staff and Contact Information
Studying at the University
DHSRU is a research unit and it may be possible to arrange postgraduate study.
For further details, please contact f.szeller@cpse.dundee.ac.uk.
For information regarding study at Dundee Dental School, please see Dundee Dental School.
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