Children in nurseries around Scotland had something to smile about recently as the second of two major Scottish Oral Health Demonstration programmes was launched near Dunfermline, Fife by the Deputy Health Minister for Health and Community Care, Scotland, Lewis Macdonald.
The programme will deliver a targeted oral health prevention programme in nurseries and primary schools, initially focusing on the twice yearly application of fluoride varnish by specially trained clinical dental teams.
Supported by a fleet of vehicles, the teams will comprise dental hygienists and dental nurses, and a new programme to train dental nurses to apply fluoride varnish is under development. Both Childsmile programmes will also introduce the role of dental health support worker. The Childsmile programmes have been funded through Scotland's Dental Action Plan with Childsmile (East) involving six NHS Board areas.
For more details see www.child-smile.org.
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Oral health prevention in nurseries. Vital 4, 9 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/vital588
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