Dental Council

The regulatory authority created by the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 to ensure oral health practitioners meet and maintain standards, in order to protect the health and safety of the public.

Fluoride Free NZ

An organisation opposed to the fluoridation of drinking water in New Zealand.

New Zealand Dental Association

The website of New Zealand’s professional association for dentists, with oral health resources and information for other oral health professionals and the public.

New Zealand Dental & Oral Health Health Therapists

New Zealand’s professional association for dental therapists and oral health therapists.

Oral health

Information on oral health and links to resources, data and statistics from the Ministry of Health.

Te Ao Marama

Te Ao Marama, the NZ Māori Dental Association, advocates for better oral health for Māori.

An evaluation of the reorientation of child and adolescent oral health services. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2014. PDF

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Brown, Harvey. Sir John Walsh and his legacy to the dental profession. Auckland: Sir John Walsh Trust and the New Zealand Dental Association, 2017.

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Fulton, John T. Experiment in dental care: results of New Zealand’s use of school dental nurses. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1951.

Good oral health for all, for life: the strategic vision for oral health in New Zealand. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2006. PDF

Improving child oral health and reducing child oral health inequalities: report to the Minister of Health from the Public Health Advisory Committee. Wellington: National Health Committee, 2003. PDF

Leslie, G. H. New Zealand School Dental Service 1921–1971. Wellington: Government Printer, 1971.

McLean, A. R. The Royal New Zealand Dental Corps: tall but true tales from the past. Picton: Sounds Print and Stationery, 1997.

Moffat, S. M. 'From innovative to outdated? New Zealand's School Dental Service 1921–1989.' PhD thesis, University of Otago, 2015.

Moffat, S. M., L. A. Foster Page, and W. M. Thomson. ' New Zealand's School Dental Service over the decades: its response to social, political, and economic influences, and the effect on oral health inequalities.' Frontiers in Public Health 5, no. 177 (July 2017) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00177/full

National School Dental Service review: final report, December 2004. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2006. PDF

Our oral health: key findings of the 2009 New Zealand Oral Health Survey. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2010. PDF

Saunders, J. L. The New Zealand School Dental Service: its initiation and development 1920–1960. Wellington: R. E. Owen, Government Printer, 1964.

Tane, H. R. ‘A qualitative study of the role of dental therapy in New Zealand.’ New Zealand Dental Journal 105, no. 3 (September 2009): 82–86.

Tsang, K. L., ed. Oral health therapy programs in Australia and New Zealand: emergence and development. Varsity Lakes, Australia: Knowledge Books and Software, 2010.