Current research activities

Oral Health and Dental Care Pathways of Humanitarian Migrants.

The purpose of this project is to better understand the concerns of newly-arrived refugees and asylum seekers, regarding the health of their mouth and how they seek dental care in Canada. The project is a collaboration between researchers in the Faculties of Dentistry at McGill University and the University of Toronto. Participants in the study are invited to a dental clinic where they complete a questionnaire about their health and health-related lifestyle choices and have their mouth (teeth and gums) examined. Community organisations in Montreal and Toronto are partners in this project. After careful planning, from designing and optimising the questionnaire to standardising the dental examination and training the data collectors, we are excited to begin our recruitment drive and envisage the completion of data collection by Summer 2021. The results and conclusions of this study will help to inform policies and programs to improve the oral health of humanitarian migrants.