One-year in the past this month, our fantastic charity modified its identify from the British Dental Well being Basis and have become the Oral Well being Basis. It was a brand new identify, a brand new look, and a world of recent methods through which our charity would be capable to assist enhance oral well being throughout the world. Somewhat over 12 months on from this monumental second in our historical past, we have a look at what we’ve got achieved to this point and what there may be nonetheless to come back.

In the meantime, Nationwide Smile Month, our largest oral well being marketing campaign of the yr, is a bit of over three weeks away! Within the challenge, we take a have a look at Nationwide Smile Month, what it’s all about and extra importantly, how one can become involved and assist us marketing campaign for higher oral well being and wellbeing.

We even have some thrilling fundraising tales from Brighton and Studying, each of that are doing nice work to lift priceless cash and consciousness for our Mouth Most cancers Motion programme. Lastly, on this version of Phrase of Mouth, we share our view on the Sugar Tax, following the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s spring finances, which did not tackle a few of the considerations in regards to the new levy whereas we additionally report on a brand new movie by Plymouth College’s Peninsula Dental Faculty which hopes to deal with the town’s downside with tooth decay.

Obtain: Phrase of Mouth: April 2017