Other services
Oral Health Promotion
The Oral Health Promotion Team can provide a number of services,
including training to care home staff who look after their clients'
oral health, training to local authorities who are setting up
supervised brushing schemes, and training and information to
non-dental healthcare staff who may be expected to provide advice
to their patients or clients, for example health visitors.
The team also has many contacts around the BNSSG and
B&NES areas, including all of the local Children's Centres.
Please contact the team on 0117 342 9578 if you would
like any further information on the services they can
provide.
We are closely linked to a local Health Integration Team (HIT),
BoNEE, whose remit is to
conduct research into and then provide information and advice about
reducing inequalities in early years' health. There are three
workstreams: Social and Emotional Health and Wellbeing, Nutrition,
and Oral Health. Please click the link above for further details of
our research work.
Epidemiology
The PCDS is commissioned to conduct epidemiological survey work
for the local authorities of Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North
Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset. Most years we
visit primary schools to examine children's teeth as part of the
national NHS 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 (2014-15), Bristol came in at just better than the national
average for dental decay. Click here
for further details.
