Regardless of the brand new 12 months typically signalling a clear slate, outdated challenges nonetheless exist for us as a charity. There’s nonetheless a lot work to be carried out, even on probably the most primary of issues like offering schooling and assist, altering attitudes and perceptions about oral healthcare, tackling childhood decay, and selling follow in good oral hygiene.

There are additionally on-going points of accelerating the variety of individuals visiting a dentist regularly, seeing the addition of fluoride into ingesting water in additional areas of the UK, and elevating extra consciousness about mouth most cancers – instances of which proceed to rise at an disturbing price.

On this version we attempt to tackle a few of these points. There’s numerous recommendation on quite a lot of oral well being subjects, from fluoride to phobia. Our Chief Govt Dr Nigel Carter OBE offers us his personal high ideas shifting into the brand new 12 months.

I hope you take pleasure in this situation of Phrase of Mouth!