Journal of Disability and Oral Health
- Cover Date:
- March 2011
- Print ISSN:
- 1470-8558
- Vol:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
Caring for Smiles
A new oral health resource with real bite!
NHS Health Scotland in partnership with the National Older People’s Oral Health Improvement Group recently launched the resource ‘Caring for Smiles’. This Guide for Trainers is for oral health professionals to deliver training for staff in care homes and enable carers to provide a high standard of oral care for dependent older people. The training highlights to care staff that good oral health is important for overall general health. It also encourages them to consider that oral care should be an integral part of personal care. ‘Caring for Smiles’ was developed in response to the Scottish Dental Action Plan target that oral health programmes should be developed for care homes. The Guide for Trainers has seven units, including the core oral health messages, and also covers topics such as how to teach, overcoming barriers in providing oral care, the need for a practical session, oral health paperwork, dementia and special care. A CD is also included in the Guide, which gives trainers easy access to materials to enhance their training sessions. ‘Caring for Smiles’ was launched in May in Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, with 13 of the 14 NHS Boards in Scotland represented.
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- An overview of the provision of oral health care for patients with oncological disease attending salaried primary dental care services in England
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- Occurrence of hypodontia, supernumerary teeth and dental anomalies in Brazilian individuals with Down syndrome
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- The dental management of an albino adolescent with an undetected bleeding disorder: a case report
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