Best practices in General Health education
Teddy Bear Hospital
Teddy Bear Hospital is a prevention and education programme for kindergarten and school children delivered by dental students.
Styrian caries prophylaxis prevention programme
This prevention program focuses on practicing the correct brushing technique, regular check-ups and age-appropriate information about oral health.
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Austria
- Addressing oral health inequalities
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Service provision
- Targeted at children
- Targeted at pregnant women
Protect kids’ smiles
In 2013 and 2014, Wrigley Poland, the Polish Dental Society, the Polish Children’s Dental Society and the Polish Red Cross, facilitated free dental check-ups for children in primary schools.
Project Teeth
“Project Zobek” (Project Teeth) is an innovative student based programme involving preventive action to promote oral health in different populations.
Gerodent
Gerodent is an oral health care project which has implemented a preventive and curative oral health care program in a network of 40 nursing homes in Belgium (Flanders) since 2010.
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Belgium
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Integrating oral health promotion into broader general health programmes
- Targeted at the elderly
Apollonia 2020
Apollonia 2020, funded by the Lower Austria health insurance authorities, aims to increase the percentage of caries free children.
Learn how to be healthy
This municipality-based project aims to improve the oral health of children in elementary schools in Portugal.
Keep your mouth healthy
“Hou je mond gezond !” aims at teaching children how to improve their oral health and general health.
Keep the mouth of the elderly healthy
This new national Dutch project, implemented by the Ivoren Kruis, aims to improve the oral health of vulnerable elderly people in the Netherlands.
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Netherlands
- Addressing oral health inequalities
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Health promotion
- Targeted at the elderly