Wisdom and The Confident Dentist have announced their new collaboration working together on a highly innovative educational campaign to support dental professionals to encourage habit change in patients.

Experts in oral care and working for improved oral health, Wisdom is dedicated to delivering leading-edge products across the UK, meeting all of a family's oral hygiene needs.

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Agreeing with this commitment, Dr Barry Oulton, a practising dentist and founder of The Confident Dentist Academy, is a long-term customer of Wisdom and has been recommending Wisdom Oral Care products to his patients for more than 20 years.

He believes that the key to maintaining a successful at-home oral care regime is through the development and encouragement of habit change in patients by reinforcing and embedding unconscious patterns of behaviour, developed through frequent and positive repetition.

Working together represents the ideal evolution for both parties in this educational endeavour, since The Confident Dentist offers a set of teachable techniques to help dentistry professionals improve the way they communicate with patients, while Wisdom, provides the 'tool kit' to execute habit change.

Combined, they offer a powerful tool in helping to support your patients in achieving their long-term oral care goals.

A webinar dedicated to habit change, presented by Dr Oulton, will be available later in the year.

In addition, further topics that will be covered during this partnership will include adopting a successful mindset, building rapport with patients, how to use language to best effect, and meta programmes (ie mental processes that manage, guide and direct other mental processes), as well as further information on habit formation and change.

Dr Oulton will be speaking on these issues at the British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show 2019 on 17 May 2019 and the BSDHT Conference on 22 November 2019 in a presentation entitled 'The Wisdom of Great Oral Hygiene Habits'.

For more information, visit https://wisdom-toothbrushes.com and https://www.theconfidentdentist.com.