Mobile Dental Fleet To Provide Oral Health Care To Welsh Schools

Mon, 02 Feb 2009

A fleet of mobile dental units are to be rolled out in Wales as part of the country’s first national oral health improvement programme aimed at young children.

The Designed to Smile/Cynllun Gwên programme, announced by Health Minister Edwina Hart last year, has already been run on a limited basis but will now be rolled out through two super pilot schemes in North and South Wales.

A team of dental health support workers will provide toothbrushes and toothpaste to schoolchildren along with general oral health advice, while mobile dental health units will play a key role in providing specialist preventive care and treatment to schools.

Over the next three years the dental fleet will visit children in nursery, reception and year one classes in more than 300 schools across Wales.

The First Minister will unveil the new fleet at the University Hospital of Wales Dental School before opening the new facilities at the postgraduate school of dentistry .

Stuart Geddes, British Dental Association Director for Wales, said: "There is clearly much work to be done to improve the oral health of Wales' children and this fleet of mobile dental units is a good way of taking oral health education messages to those who might not normally receive them."

"One of the key messages to get through is the importance of visiting a dentist regularly," he added.
add to favouritesnewsletterlink to this pagesend to friendpost comments

Link to this page

Copy and Paste the following HTML into your page.

Health cover, life insurance and PMIProtect Your Health

Find Critical illness, Life and Private Medical Insurance PMI policies.

Save money on your mortgageSave on Your Mortgage

Would you like to save money on your mortgage? Fill out our quick mortgage enquiry form