Building upon the completed WHO International Collaborative Study of Dental Manpower Systems in Relation to Oral Health Status (ICS-I), a project which extended from 1972-1983 and was operational in ten industrialised countries, the new five-year cross-national study of oral health outcomes (ICS-II) is described. The new project includes some of the industrialised countries having participated in ICS-I plus some new ones, as well as a limited number of middle-income developing countries (Egypt, India and Uruguay).
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