A supervised tooth-brushing programme aimed at cutting cases of decay in children under the age of five is set to be introduced. North Yorkshire Council wants to commission a provider to run the ...

Supervised toothbrushing programmes (STPs) are widely implemented to improve children’s oral health, yet it remains unclear which behaviour change techniques (BCTs) they use and whether these support ...

More than 6,000 children have received support through a supervised tooth brushing programme. The initiative, delivered in schools and nurseries across Bolton, is designed to improve oral health from ...

Supervised toothbrushing in schools is making positive progress in a bid to overcome health inequalities in pediatric dental health. A significant expansion in the BRUSH supervised toothbrushing ...

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We can usually be sure that if a politician comes up with a way to improve the nation's health then we should probably do the opposite. And when the opposition party (at the time of writing) allege ...

Nearly a quarter of five-year-old children in England have tooth decay. In deprived areas of the country the proportion is even higher. And it isn’t just one problematic tooth – children with decay ...

A new toolkit to increase supervised toothbrushing for younger children aims to address health equalities caused by tooth decay. Researchers from the University of Sheffield, University of Leeds and ...