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Research Recommendations

  • Oral health promotion advice:- For groups at high risk of poor oral health, how effective and cost effective is it to exte...

    December 2015
  • Reducing use of emergency dental care:- What interventions are effective and cost effective at encouraging people who usua...

    December 2015
  • Behaviour change methods and resources:- What behaviour change methods and resources (such as phone apps, leaflets and mes...

    December 2015
  • Encouraging people to change their oral health behaviour:- What triggers and other factors encourage groups at high risk o...

    December 2015
  • Motivating dental practice teams to take a preventive approach:- What would motivate dental practice teams to take a preve...

    December 2015
  • Access to dental services in England for adults in care homes:- What effect does improving and maintaining access to denta...

    July 2016
  • Effectiveness and costs of oral health interventions for care home residents:- How effective and cost effective are oral h...

    July 2016
  • Measuring improvements in care home residents' oral health:- How can interventions to improve and maintain oral health and...

    July 2016
  • Daily mouth care for residents:- Does the delivery of a daily mouth care regimen in care homes maintain or improve adult r...

    July 2016
  • Reducing demands on health and social care services:- Do preventive oral health interventions in residential and nursing c...

    July 2016
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Shared Learning

  • NHS Scotland’s Caring for Smiles: improving the oral health of adults in care settings in line with NICE Guidance and Quality Standards
    July 2017
  • The Oral Health Needs of Older People Living in Islington Nursing Homes.
    August 2016
  • Residential Oral Care Sheffield (ROCS): domiciliary dental care scheme to improve oral healthcare for patients in care homes
    July 2016
  • A Domiciliary Oral Health Improvement Practitioner for Vulnerable Adults linked to NHS General Dental Services Dental Domiciliary Care Services at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
    July 2016
  • Healthy Living Dentistry
    January 2016
  • Delivering Better Oral Health: Prevention in Practice Award
    December 2015
  • Designed to Smile - working to improve oral healthcare for children
    August 2015
  • The development, implementation and monitoring of a community-based fluoride varnish programme in an inner-city London borough
    September 2014
  • The Calderdale tooth brushing in schools scheme
    September 2014

Do not do

  • Antibiotic prophylaxis against infective endocarditis is not recommended routinely[1]: for people undergoing dental procedures for people undergoing non-dental procedures at the following sites[2]: upper and lower gastrointestinal tract genitourinary tract; this includes urological, gynaecological and obstetric procedures, and childbirth upper and lower respiratory tract; this includes ear, nose and throat procedures and bronchoscopy.
    December 2016
  • Chlorhexidine mouthwash should not be offered as prophylaxis against infective endocarditis to people at risk of infective endocarditis undergoing dental procedures. [2015]
    December 2016
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