Best practices in Educating professionals
Com 4You – Youth Community-based oral health learning model
“Com 4You” is a youth community based oral health learning model aimed at enhancing the oral health literacy of the young population.
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.
- Austria
- Addressing oral health inequalities
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Service provision
- Targeted at children
- Targeted at pregnant women
Protocol Child Abuse (and domestic violence)
The aim of the Protocol is to facilitate professional help for children (or adults) when the dental staff suspect abuse, neglect or violence.
Project Teeth
“Project Zobek” (Project Teeth) is an innovative student based programme involving preventive action to promote oral health in different populations.
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.
- Netherlands
- Addressing oral health inequalities
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Health promotion
- Targeted at the elderly
Healthy in the mouth and around
“Tipptopp. Gesund im Mund und rundherum” aims at improving children's oral health in Austria through general health education, education of professionals and the integration of oral health into general health programmes.
- Austria
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Integrating oral health promotion into broader general health programmes
- Targeted at children
Healthy eating and physical activity policy
Whole School Approach to a healthy lifestyle : Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Policy, involves the integration of oral health with general health, the alignment of common messages and pooling of resources.
- Malta
- Addressing oral health inequalities
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Health promotion
- Integrating oral health promotion into broader general health programmes
- Public policy
- Targeted at children
Delivering Better Oral Health
The DBOH toolkit provides clear oral health improvement interventions and updated advice to help dental teams in promoting oral health and preventing oral diseases.
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.
- Belgium
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Integrating oral health promotion into broader general health programmes
- Targeted at the elderly