Workforce & Professionals
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Oral health is everyone's business. Non-dental staff across health and social care settings are often best placed to spot problems early, support daily mouth care, and help people access dental services. These resources support Mouth Care Champions, commissioners, and professionals who want to build oral health into their practice and improve outcomes for the people they work with.
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Spotting Oral Health Problems: A Guide for Non-Dental Staff
Many of the people you support can't easily tell you when something's wrong in their mouth. You don't need to be a dentist to notice when something isn't right — you just need to know what to look for. This guide covers how to look safely, the common problems to recognise, and exactly when to refer.
Mouth Care Champions: A Practical Guide for Care Staff and Support Workers
You see the people you support every day — which puts you in the best position of anyone to keep their mouth care on track. Here's how to become a Mouth Care Champion in your setting: the free training, the first steps, how to bring colleagues with you, and when to call in a dentist.
Building Oral Health Capacity Across Your Workforce: A Guide for Managers and Workforce Leads
Oral health improvement doesn't happen in dental surgeries alone — it happens wherever your team supports people every day. As a manager, your job isn't to deliver clinical care yourself; it's to make sure your workforce knows what good oral health support looks like, is trained to provide it, and keeps doing it. Here's how to plan, deliver, embed and evidence that.
Why Oral Health Matters: A Guide for Local Authorities and Commissioners
Oral health is one of the most significant — yet most overlooked — areas of preventable ill health in England. This guide makes the case for commissioning oral health improvement: the scale of the problem, the evidence behind what works, and how to build prevention into local plans.
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