Staff profile

Dr Ben Keith

Clinical Director of Dentistry and Oral Health, Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Health Sciences

La Trobe Rural Health School
Department of Dentistry and Oral Health

Bendigo

 

Qualifications

MPH, BDSc

Membership of professional associations

Australian Dental Association, Australian Dental Prosthetists Association (Honorary),

Area of study

Dentistry

Teaching units

DEN2MDB ORH3ACP  

Recent publications

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·         de Silva-Sanigorski, Ashbolt, Green, Calache, Keith, Riggs and Waters Parental self-efficacy and oral health related knowledge are associated with parent and child oral health behaviors and self-reported oral health status.  Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, In Press 2012.

 

·         A family centred approach to improving oral health in early childhood: a pilot study.  de Silva-Sanigorski A, Keith B, O’Callaghan E, Carpenter L, Porter J, Hegde S, Calache H, Gussy M, Barrow SY and Waters E Population Health Congress, Adelaide, September 2012

 

·         Enabling occupational participation for people with mental illness through improving oral health, McKinstry, C., Kenny, A., Bish, M., Kidd, S., Gussy, M., Keith, B. & Kidd, T.  15th International Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists 4-7 May, Santiago, Chile 2010

 

·         Oral health literacy and novel intervention approaches to reduce early childhood caries.  Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski, Hanny Calache, Ben Keith, Elizabeth Waters. Symposium on Population Oral Health, Melbourne 2009

 

·         Translating evidence to practice: improving oral health outcomes for rural mental health clients. Amanda Kenny, Carol McKinstry, Mark Gussy, Ben Keith, National Rural Health Conference, Cairns 2009

 

·         Strengthening knowledge of oral health: the development of a supportive education program for multidisciplinary health professionals and mental health consumers,  Ben Keith, Amanda Kenny, Carol McKinstry, Mark Gussy, Australian Dental Prosthetists Association Annual Conference, Creswick 2009