Subjective oral health measures for use with children: New Zealand's contribution to a burgeoning field.

The last 25 years have seen considerable strides made in the development, validation and field use of self-report oral health scales. New Zealand researchers have played important roles in that work, particularly in respect of child-focused measures. This paper provides an overview of that contribution by describing first the work on child informant scales, followed by an overview of New Zealand researchers' contribution to the proxy informant scales. The paper concludes by considering the way forward for such work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]