The Oral Well being Basis is an impartial charity (not for revenue) devoted to enhancing oral well being and wellbeing all over the world. For greater than 45 years we’ve continued to supply knowledgeable, impartial and neutral recommendation on all features of oral well being on to those that want it most.

We work intently with governments, dental and well being professionals, producers, the dental commerce, nationwide and native businesses and the general public, to attain our mission of addressing the inequalities which exist in oral well being, altering folks’s lives for the higher.

Fashioned in 1971, the idea of preventive dentistry and the advantages which might ensue from it have been then very new and being practiced by solely a small proportion of the dental career. The founding fathers of the Oral Well being Basis wished to see the preventive message that ‘Tooth are for Life’ unfold as broadly as doable, with the purpose of enhancing the general oral well being of everybody.

Listed below are among the main challenges we face:

  • To enhance oral healthcare and promote apply in good oral hygiene.
  • To see the addition of fluoride to ingesting water.
  • To extend the variety of folks visiting a dentist frequently.
  • To proceed to be a profitable impartial provider of oral well being promotional materials to the well being group.

Our work to enhance the state of the oral well being and wellbeing consists of:

Instructional sources

As a charity, we offer top quality data and oral hygiene merchandise to well being professionals in all places. We now have over 7,000 prospects from dental surgical procedures, well being centres, hospitals and training centres, providing a variety of greater than 500 merchandise which supply worth and high quality to professionals looking for oral well being training and motivational supplies for his or her sufferers and their local people.

Though most of our instructional sources are used within the UK, our oral well being merchandise are more and more used abroad. Our affected person data translated into 9 different world languages and distributed all through Europe and the Arabian peninsula.

We additionally provide oral well being supplies for the Dental Defence Service, going to troops and repair personnel all all over the world. We ship tens of 1000’s of a lot wanted oral hygiene merchandise yearly to greater than 30 international locations together with Germany, Cyprus and Iraq.

Campaigns and initiatives

We organise and run two annual campaigns within the UK, Nationwide Smile Month and Mouth Most cancers Motion Month, along with school-based programmes like Dental Buddy. We use these campaigns to unfold public consciousness of oral well being points through the press whereas encouraging the well being career to be extra energetic in training and oral well being promotion of their native communities.

These campaigns have additionally grown abroad. We now have helped well being our bodies and organisations in Eire, america of America and the Center East, all conduct their very personal Nationwide Smile Month. We now have additionally assisted oral well being associations in japanese Europe organise devoted mouth most cancers campaigns.  

Our membership to the Platform for Higher Oral Well being in Europe additionally places us in a key place to advertise oral well being and the cost-effective prevention of oral illnesses in Europe. The group seeks a standard European method in the direction of training, prevention and entry to raised oral well being in Europe

Shopper confidence

For greater than 25 years, we’ve helped the dental career and members of the general public make knowledgeable selections about which oral care merchandise they purchase. Our Authorised Merchandise Schemes offers us the chance to supply folks with data, safety and training relating to which oral well being merchandise they purchase, and ensures that the advertising and marketing claims made by producers are reliable and backed up by scientific proof.

We’re proud that our Authorised Merchandise Scheme is now the most important of its kind on the planet, with greater than 150 merchandise spanning throughout greater than 50 international locations.

Altering our identify

In April 2016, we modified our identify from British Dental Well being Basis to Oral Well being Basis, to raised signify our rising physique of labor globally. The brand new identify additionally signalled the shift in terminology over the previous couple of many years from ‘dental well being’ to ‘oral well being’ – a time period which is much extra all-encompassing and actually highlights that the well being of our mouth is about greater than our enamel.

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David Arnold