Bury Oral Health Promotion leads on the implementation and maintenance of a range of evidence-based programmes to reduce both the levels of oral disease and inequalities of oral health in Bury.
Bury Oral Health Promotion Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust delivers training to key workforces and relevant health professionals and carers.
The Bury Oral Health Improvement team has a particular focus on early years to lay the foundations for good oral health, targeting the areas and settings with the highest levels of poor oral health.
The Oral Health Team Bury has developed a digital resources page which has many useful links and resources to promote good oral health at:
Our programmes include:
- Daily supervised toothbrushing – offered to all Early Years settings, Reception classes, SEND provision in primary schools within the borough. Including the Brush Bus Scheme in pre-school, nursery and school early years foundation stage (EYFS) Settings.
- The Golden Apple Award Scheme – designed for early years settings who wish to improve nutrition, hygiene and dental health amongst children in their care.
- Brushing For Life: Oral Health packs are provided to Health Visiting Teams. This enables them to promote the importance of daily toothbrushing with a family fluoride toothpaste. This is also the perfect opportunity to discuss oral health at baby/child health assessments.
- Oral health updates and training for those working in or with early years, for both health professionals and non-health professionals
Our objectives are:
- To work closely with Public Health team and the Bury Early Year’s team
- To support parents / carers to implement oral health friendly feeding
- To ensure effective tooth brushing and oral health messages to reduce the number of children with dental caries
- To equip parents / carers with the knowledge and alternatives to enable them to minimise the consumption of sugar in food, drinks and medicines, and the impact of these at various times of the day
- To encourage all early years settings to achieve the early years foundation stage framework requirement to promote good oral health
- To provide borough wide communications with key oral health improvement messages and a consistent approach
- To develop and implement effective ways to enable lived experience to shape and influence local service planning and delivery
- To have named Oral Health Champions in each of the children’s centres / family hubs
- Supporting national campaigns – National Smile Month, World Oral Health Day, Mouth Cancer Action Month.
- supporting and promoting local and national oral health campaigns.
Oral Health leaflets
Oral Health Care in Pregnancy leaflet
The good toothbrushing guide for parents and carers of children
Resources
Oral health older and vulnerable people and people with additional needs
Oral health training resources
Contact details
Bury Oral Health Improvement Team
Telephone: 07826 858005
Email: alison.tabois@nhs.net