The Oral Well being Basis is an impartial charity (not for revenue) devoted to bettering oral well being and wellbeing all over the world. For greater than 45 years we’ve continued to offer skilled, impartial and neutral recommendation on all elements of oral well being on to those that want it most.

We work intently with governments, dental and well being professionals, producers, the dental commerce, nationwide and native companies and the general public, to realize our mission of addressing the inequalities which exist in oral well being, altering individuals’s lives for the higher.

Fashioned in 1971, the idea of preventive dentistry and the advantages which might ensue from it have been then very new and being practiced by solely a small proportion of the dental occupation. The founding fathers of the Oral Well being Basis wished to see the preventive message that ‘Enamel are for Life’ unfold as extensively as potential, with the intention of bettering the general oral well being of everybody.

Listed below are among the main challenges we face:

  • To enhance oral healthcare and promote follow in good oral hygiene.
  • To see the addition of fluoride to ingesting water.
  • To extend the variety of individuals visiting a dentist regularly.
  • To proceed to be a profitable impartial provider of oral well being promotional materials to the well being neighborhood.

Our work to enhance the state of the oral well being and wellbeing contains:

Instructional assets

As a charity, we offer prime quality info and oral hygiene merchandise to well being professionals in every single place. We have now over 7,000 prospects from dental surgical procedures, well being centres, hospitals and schooling centres, providing a spread of greater than 500 merchandise which supply worth and high quality to professionals searching for oral well being schooling and motivational supplies for his or her sufferers and their area people.

Though most of our instructional assets are used within the UK, our oral well being merchandise are more and more used abroad. Our affected person info translated into 9 different world languages and distributed all through Europe and the Arabian peninsula.

We additionally provide oral well being supplies for the Dental Defence Service, going to troops and repair personnel all all over the world. We ship tens of 1000’s of a lot wanted oral hygiene merchandise yearly to greater than 30 nations together with Germany, Cyprus and Iraq.

Campaigns and initiatives

We organise and run two annual campaigns within the UK, Nationwide Smile Month and Mouth Most cancers Motion Month, along with school-based programmes like Dental Buddy. We use these campaigns to unfold public consciousness of oral well being points through the press whereas encouraging the well being occupation to be extra energetic in schooling and oral well being promotion of their native communities.

These campaigns have additionally grown abroad. We have now helped well being our bodies and organisations in Eire, the USA of America and the Center East, all conduct their very personal Nationwide Smile Month. We have now additionally assisted oral well being associations in jap Europe organise devoted mouth most cancers campaigns.  

Our membership to the Platform for Higher Oral Well being in Europe additionally places us in a key place to advertise oral well being and the cost-effective prevention of oral illnesses in Europe. The group seeks a standard European strategy in direction of schooling, prevention and entry to higher oral well being in Europe

Shopper confidence

For greater than 25 years, we’ve helped the dental occupation and members of the general public make knowledgeable decisions about which oral care merchandise they purchase. Our Authorized Merchandise Schemes offers us the chance to offer individuals with info, safety and schooling concerning which oral well being merchandise they purchase, and ensures that the advertising and marketing claims made by producers are reliable and backed up by scientific proof.

We’re proud that our Authorized Merchandise Scheme is now the biggest of its sort on this planet, with greater than 150 merchandise spanning throughout greater than 50 nations.

Altering our identify

In April 2016, we modified our identify from British Dental Well being Basis to Oral Well being Basis, to higher characterize our rising physique of labor globally. The brand new identify additionally signalled the shift in terminology over the previous few a long time from ‘dental well being’ to ‘oral well being’ – a time period which is much extra all-encompassing and actually highlights that the well being of our mouth is about greater than our enamel.

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Writer:

David Arnold