Posts Tagged ‘oral health education’
Rochdale children to benefit from new £1.5 million dental initiative
Children in Rochdale are set to benefit from a new £1.5 million dental initiative after the area was selected to participate in Greater Manchester’s new Healthy Heroes programme. The scheme has been set up to target areas worst affected by childhood decay and obesity. Rochdale is one of four areas in the county set to […]
Children At Timaru School Benefiting From New Dental Service
Children used to dread going to see the dental nurse but those days are gone and now children at Highfield School, Timaru, look forward to their trip to the dental therapist. Dental therapist Sue Hewitson visits the school in a mobile dental unit, which is designed to cater for younger patients. The sessions she has […]
Funding for improved oral health services in Teesside
More than 6,000 school children are set to benefit from better oral health services, after health bosses successfully secured funding from the British Dental Health Foundation. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust was one of 12 successful applicants for funding from the Wrigley Tooth Fairy Fund and the British Dental Health Foundation. The money will […]
Health officials trying to improve oral health on the Isle of Man
The Department of Health are meeting to discuss ways to improve standards of oral health amongst children on the Isle of Wight. Standards of oral health are very low amongst young children; figures suggest that half of children under the age of 5 suffer from tooth decay. Tooth decay has been highlighted as a major […]
Parents look to schools to educate children about oral health
Parents in America are looking to schools to help them educate children about oral health. Standards of oral health amongst children, in particular younger children, are slipping thanks to a diet that is often filled with convenience foods, sweets and fizzy drinks and a lack of awareness of the dangers associated with poor oral health. […]
Standards of dental health much worse amongst Aboriginal population
Researchers have discovered that standards of oral health are considerably lower amongst the Aboriginal population. The study, which was carried out by Lisa Jamieson, a researcher at the University of Adelaide, found that standards of oral health amongst young Aboriginal adults were up to eleven times worse than those amongst the rest of the Australian […]
