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Nigel Pitts
Researcher at King's College London
Publications - 334
Citations - 15944
Nigel Pitts is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & MEDLINE. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 326 publications receiving 14290 citations. Previous affiliations of Nigel Pitts include Abertay University & Prince Philip Dental Hospital.
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Caries experience, the caries burden and associated factors in children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland 2013.
TL;DR: Overall, the prevalence of caries in children is continuing to decrease, but the rate is slowing and the level of disease for those with disease is much higher than the average values might suggest.
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Urban-rural differences in dental caries of 5-year old children in Scotland.
TL;DR: Children in Remote and Rural areas appear to have better dental health and a higher proportion of filled teeth when compared with those living in Cities, while the Care Index was higher in Remote Towns.
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The translation research in a dental setting (TRiaDS) programme protocol
Jan E Clarkson,Craig R Ramsay,Martin P Eccles,Sandra Eldridge,Jeremy M. Grimshaw,Marie Johnston,Susan Michie,Shaun Treweek,Alan Walker,Linda Young,Irene Black,Debbie Bonetti,Heather Cassie,Jill J Francis,Gillian MacKenzie,Lorna M. D. Macpherson,Lorna McKee,Nigel Pitts,Jim Rennie,Doug Stirling,Colin Tilley,Carole Torgerson,Luke Vale +22 more
TL;DR: The TRiaDS programmatic approach is a significant step forward towards the development of a practical, generalisable framework for knowledge translation research, and enablesTRiaDS to inform dental services practitioners, policy makers and patients on how best to translate national recommendations into routine clinical activities.
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Effects of diagnostic threshold and overlapped approximal surfaces on reported caries status
Patricia Anne Rimmer,Nigel Pitts +1 more
TL;DR: In this study the status of approximal surfaces which were overlapped on bitewing radiographs was assessed by direct clinical examination using the temporary elective tooth separation technique and it was demonstrated that an over-optimistic impression of overall caries levels may be given when only the D3 threshold is used uncritically.