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Oral Health Promotion
The Oral Health Promotion Team is now accepting requests for
advice or training. We are only able to provide support and
training to other healthcare professionals, teachers, support staff
and organisations, rather than delivering oral health education to
individual service users. We may be able to visit you at your
workplace, but we can also deliver training remotely.
Regretfully, we are unable to provide oral health education to
schools. There are many good quality resources available via the
internet which can be used to develop sessions or assemblies for
school-age children.
Please email OHPinfo@uhbw.nhs.uk in the
first instance and one of the team will get back to you.
Epidemiology
The PCDS is commissioned to conduct epidemiological survey work
for the local authorities of Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North
Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset. Most years we visit
primary schools to examine children's teeth as part of the National
Dental Epidemiology Programme. Some years we also take part in the
national Child or Adult Dental Health Surveys. All of these
survey results are published, and they often generate headlines in
the national press. In the last survey of 5 year olds (2019),
Bristol came in at better than the national average for dental
decay (15.5% of 5 year olds had some experience of decay, compared
to 23.4% for England as a whole). Click here
for further details. Other recent surveys have been of 3 year olds
(2020), which was curtailed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Year
6 children (2022-23), which will be published in 2024.
In the academic year 2023-24 we are participating in the
National Dental Epidemiology Programme and examining
5-year-olds.
Page last reviewed: September 2023
