Rate My Professor Lyndie Foster Page

Lyndie Foster Page is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Dental Public Health within the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Otago. Her research specializations center on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL), particularly among children and adolescents, dental caries prevention and management, socioeconomic influences on oral health disparities, and the validation of patient-reported outcome measures in dentistry. She holds qualifications including BSc, BDS, MComDent, and PhD. Throughout her career at the University of Otago, she has held positions such as Head of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry at the Dental School and has supervised numerous postgraduate theses in areas like restorative management of dental caries, psychosocial aspects of periodontal disease, and supervised tooth brushing programs. In 2013, she received the University of Otago Early Career Award and secured research funding from Cure Kids, followed by further grants in 2014 for projects including innovative drill-less techniques to reduce children's fear of dentistry and studies on the Hall Technique for caries treatment.

Foster Page's key publications include the highly cited 'Socioeconomic inequality and caries: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (2015, with F. Schwendicke and others), which examined global disparities in caries experience; 'Validation of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ11-14)' (2005, with W.M. Thomson and others), a foundational work for assessing children's OHRQoL; 'Oral health–related beliefs, behaviors, and outcomes through the life course' (2016, with J.M. Broadbent and others); 'Permanent dentition caries through the first half of life' (2013, with J.M. Broadbent and others); and contributions to consensus statements like 'When to intervene in the caries process?' (2019). Her work has influenced clinical guidelines on minimally invasive caries management, cost-effectiveness of fluoride varnish applications, and orthodontic volunteering experiences. She has published extensively in journals such as Journal of Dentistry, International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, and Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, demonstrating substantial impact in advancing evidence-based dental public health practices.