Professor Ray Croucher, BSc , MA , PhD

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Professor of Community Oral Health

Biography

Ray Croucher joined Barts and The London in 1989, receiving a personal chair in Community Oral Health in 2001. He is currently Deputy Director (Research) in the Institute of Dentistry and Senior Tutor for Dental Postgraduate Taught Courses. Before joining Barts and The London he held teaching and research posts at the University of Cambridge (1976-1986) and University College London (1986-89). He has also acted as a consultant to the World Health Organisation (1996,1998), the Department of Health's Tobacco Control Unit (2002) and Cancer Research UK (2005-2006).

Publications:

Key Publications

Kent G. Croucher R. (1998) Achieving Oral Health: the social context of dentistry. Revised third edition of The Psychology of Dental Care. Oxford , Butterworth Heinemann. (Translated for Japanese dental undergraduate market: 2005)

Croucher R. Marcenes W. Pau AK. (2006) Community health promotion. Pp 265-276, in Mostofsky D. Forgione A. Giddon D. (eds) Behavioural Dentistry.Oxford, Blackwell Munksgaard.

Croucher R. Rodgers AI. Humpherson WA . Crush L. (1985) The "spread of effect' of a school based dental health education project. Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology. 13(4):205-7.

Croucher R. Marcenes WS. Torres MC. Hughes F. Sheiham A. (1997) The relationship between life-events and periodontitis. A case-control study. Journal of Clinical Periodontology. 24(1):39-43.

Abegg C. Croucher R. Marcenes W. Sheiham A. (2000) How do routines of daily activities and flexibility of daily activities affect behaviour. Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 60(3): 154-158.

Croucher R. Islam S. Jarvis MJ. Garrett M. Rahman R. Shajahan S. Howells G. (2002) Tobacco dependence in a UK Bangladeshi female population: a cross-sectional study. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 4 (2): 171-176.

Hughes F. Syed M Koshy B. Marinho V. Bostanci N. McKay I. Curtis M. Marcenes W. Croucher R. Prognostic factors in the treatment of generalized aggressive periodontitis:II. Effects of smoking on initial outcome. Journal of Clinical Periodontology 33(9):671-6. Islam S.

Croucher R. Concurrent tobacco use in Bangladeshi UK resident adult males. Journal of Public Health Dentistry (in press).

Publications since 2001

Pearson N. Croucher R. Marcenes W. O'Farrell M. (2001) Oral health and treatment needs among a sample of Bangladeshi medical care users aged 40 years and over living in Tower Hamlets, UK. International Dental Journal 51 (1): 23-29.

Pearson N. Croucher R. Marcenes W. O'Farrell M. (2001) Prevalence of oral lesions among a sample of Bangladeshi medical care users aged 40 years and over living in Tower Hamlets, UK. International Dental Journal 51 (1): 30-34.

Pattussi M. Marcenes W. Croucher R. Sheiham A (2001) Social deprivation, income inequality, social cohesion and dental caries in Brazilian school children. Social Science and Medicine 53: 915-925.

Pau AK . Croucher R. (2001) A dental practice placement scheme: benefits for practitioners and undergraduates. European Journal of Dental Education 5 (4): 155-161

Croucher R . Islam S. (2002) Socio-economic aspects of areca nut use. Addiction Biology 7 (1): 139-146.

Croucher R. Islam S. Jarvis MJ. Garrett M. Rahman R. Shajahan S. Howells G. (2003) Tobacco cessation in a UK Bangladeshi female population: a community pilot investigation. Health Education Research: 18 (2): 216-225.

Pau AK . Croucher R. Marcenes W. Rahman R. Shajahan S. (2003) Tobacco cessation, oral pain and psychological distress in Bangladeshi women. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 5(3): 419-423.

Pau AKH, Croucher R . (2003) The use of PBL to facilitate the development of professional attributes in second year dental students. European Journal of Dental Education 2003; 7: 123-129.

Croucher R. Pau AK. Jerreat M. Begum S. Marcenes W. (2003) Oral health of Bangladeshi women tobacco-in-paan users and self-reported oral pain following tobacco cessation. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 63(4): 235-239.

Pau AK . Croucher R . Marcenes WS. (2003) Prevalence estimates and socio-demographic correlates of dental pain: a review. Journal of Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry 1(3): 209-220.

Pau AK . Croucher R . (2003) Emotional intelligence and perceived stress in dental undergraduates. Journal of Dental Education 67(9): 1023-1028.

Ribeiro M. Marcenes W. Croucher R. Sheiham A. (2004) The prevalence and causes of maxillofacial fractures in patients attending Accident and Emergency Departments in Recife-Brazil. International Dental Journal 54: 47-51.

Pau AKH. Croucher R. Muirhead V. Sohanpal R. Seymour K. (2004) Emotional intelligence and stress coping in dental undergraduates. British Dental Journal 197 (4): 205-209.

Croucher R. (2005) Why and how to get patients to stop smoking. Dental Update 32 (3): 143-149.

Yahya NA. Croucher R. (2005) Smoking Cessation for Adolescents: Opinions and Experience of Malysian Government Dental Practitioners. Malaysian Dental Journal 26(2):108-115.

Croucher R. Sohanpal R. (2006) Improving access to dental care in East London 's ethnic minority groups: a community based qualitative investigation. Community Dental Health 23(2):95-100.

Kassim S. Croucher R. (2006) Khat chewing amongst UK resident male Yemeni adults: an exploratory study. International Dental Journal 56(2):97-101.

Hughes F. Syed M Koshy B. Marinho V. Bostanci N. McKay I. Curtis M. Croucher R . Marcenes W. Prognostic factors in the treatment of generalized aggressive periodontitis:I. Clinical features and initial outcome. Journal of Clinical Periodontology . 33(9):663-70.

Croucher R. Choudhury S. (2007) Tobacco control policy initiatives and UK resident Bangladeshi male smokers: Community based, qualitative study. Ethnicity and Health, 12 (4): 321-339.

Croucher RE, Pau, A, Islam S. (2007) Concurrent tobacco use in a random sample of UK-resident Bangladeshi men. Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Spring;67(2):83-8.

Pau AK, Baxevanos K, Croucher R (2007) Family structure is associated with oral pain in 12-year-old Greek schoolchildren. International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry ;17(5):345-51.

Pau A, Croucher RE, Marcenes W. (2007) Demographic and socio-economic correlates of dental pain among adults in the United Kingdom, 1998. British Dental Journal, 12;202(9):E21; discussion 548-9.

Research interests:

His research career has focussed on psycho-social risk factors for oral diseases. A current interest is on stress as a risk factor for periodontal disease, the role of tobacco use in oral diseases and the potential role of the dental workforce in tobacco cessation and the development of alternative models of service delivery for underserved populations. This latter interest stems from his role as Manager of a Tobacco Cessation programme for the Bangladeshi community of East London . ( www.btcp.globalink.org )

Tobacco use in East London, whether smoked by men or chewed by women, far exceeds the current UK national average. He is concerned to develop collaborative activity and evidence based public policy to combat all types of tobacco use.

Recent studies have used salivary cotinine to validate tobacco chewing prevalence in Bangladeshi women and the outcomes of a tobacco cessation programme. This methodology has also been used to measure the impact on non-smoking restaurant staff of working in restaurants with different levels of smokefree environments. Other studies have reviewed East London's retail trade in South Asian tobacco products, the correlates of oral pain reported by Bangladeshi women who have stopped chewing tobacco and the prevalence of dual (smoked and chewed) tobacco use in Bangladeshi men. A current collaboration with Cancer Research UK involves the development and evaluation of leaflet and poster materials on preventing oral cancer.

A recent collaborative bid with colleagues from QMUL has resulted in the award, funded through the National Prevention Research Initiative, to investigate diabetes onset in the Bangladeshi community.

As a teacher he provides academic leadership and line management for the design and development of Dental Public Health teaching (both undergraduate and postgraduate), to ensure that it meets the requirements of external validation bodies such as the General Dental Council. He also manages the Selected Study Module undergraduate programme (including liaison with the Senior Tutor for Elective Visits) and Practice Placement Scheme. His educational management activity includes acting as Deputy Chair of Examiners for BDS Part 2 and as Senior Tutor for Dental Postgraduate Taught Programmes. This role involves fostering inter-disciplinary activity by chairing the Masters Course Organisers Group and through the organization of the Institute's Induction Programme and Core Course.