Book review

This book aims to provide a basic overview of oral health promotion and is the course companion for UK dental nurses studying for the NEBDN Certificate in oral health promotion. Between them the authors, Simon Felton and Alison Chapman, have run the oral health education course in Bristol and their passion for this field of Dentistry is evident throughout the book.

Oral health promotion and preventive dentistry are becoming more important in everyday practice (highlighted by the government's publication Delivering Better Oral Health: An Evidence-Based Toolkit for Prevention. However, there are few texts that deal specifically with this topic. This book is mainly targeted at dental nurses studying oral health promotion, but it is also aimed at dentists, hygienists, therapists and other health professionals who provide advice and information on oral health.

The book is set out into six sections: the first outlines the oral structures, the second gives an overview of oral disease, and the final four sections concentrate on prevention or oral disease and delivering oral health messages. Each section is further divided into shorter chapters, with the aims of the chapter clearly stated at the beginning, and finishing with a selection of self-assessments, which appear to be mainly aimed at the NEBDN students.