Bite Size Oral Health Promotion

From Volume 37, Issue 6, July 2010 | Pages 382-388

Authors

Robert Witton

BDS, DPDS, MFDS RCS(Eng), MFGDP(UK)

CertPerio, Specialist Registrar in Dental Public Health, Peninsula Dental School, The John Bull Building, Tamar Science Park, Plymouth PL6 8BU, UK

Articles by Robert Witton

Abstract

Improving health is part of the Government's wider public health agenda and central to this theme is the requirement to help patients make informed healthy choices. The aim of the article is to review the basis of oral health promotion in primary dental care, explain why it is necessary and to give some practical tips on behaviour change in practice.

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