🎉✨ Happy New Year to our amazing members, dedicated dental hygienists, and exceptional dental therapists! ✨🎉 We’re so thankful for the passion and expertise you bring to the profession every day. Here’s to another year of brighter smiles and inspiring work! 🥂🦷 #BSDHT

Antibiotics don’t cure toothache Wendy Thompson 😉

Anyone seeking an NHS dentist will now be able to register their interest for an appointment with a new digital service. The Dental Access Portal will help people who may not have seen a dentist for some time get access to routine NHS appointments 🦷 👇 gov.wales/finding-nhs-de…

Day topped off with an energising meeting with Ifeanyi Okike and Andrew Dickenson, in preparation for the oral health workshop at the RCPCH conference in March 🎉 An honour to be part of 💫 Who’s planning to join?! #mymouthtoo BSPD BSPD West Of Scotland

RCPCH24 conference revisited. Summary of our workshop. What every paediatrician should know & do about oral health in CYP. ⁦RCPCH⁩ ⁦Andrew Dickenson⁩ ⁦Oosh Devalia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⁩ ⁦BSPD⁩ ⁦Prof Claire Stevens CBE⁩. Picture summary & workshop call to action for RCPCH.

Can’t wait to speak at the conference workshop on thursday 🎉 get ready for: Top tips on child interdisciplinary care ✅ Why mouth health should not be isolated from the body ✅ A safe space to discuss and collaborate future health priorities ✅ Prizes to be won! 🥇🐊

To all attending RCPCH conference this week, do make sure to join what promises to be a fantastic and much needed collaborative workshop looking at practical solutions for #interdisciplinary #oralhealth care for #CYP. You really do have the power to make a positive change

And 🙌 some of the brilliant resources from BSPD and @Mini_MCM: Kidsvids: - bspd.co.uk/Kidsvids A practical guide to children’s teeth (available in diff. languages): - bspd.co.uk/LinkClick.aspx… Mini mouth care matters (across diff. settings): - learninghub.nhs.uk/catalogue/mini…

A pleasure to be invited to the British Association of Oral Surgeons annual conference in Newport. Thanks to Dr Rhian Bond and congratulations on a successful Presidential year.

Launching National Smile Month 2025. Oral health is an essential part of our overall general health, starting in early childhood and maintained across the entire life course #nationalsmilemonth

T-21 days to our 4th Paediatric Academic Day Conference in Derby 5th June 2025 09-1630! Final programme below. Flyer to register if you haven’t do so. Don’t miss out!

One more sleep to PAD 25. See you at ⁦University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS FT⁩ tomorrow. ⁦RCPCH⁩ President and UHDB Chief Medical Officer will be there to welcome all delegates. First session starts promptly at 0930. See you.

We want to reform dental services in Wales, to ensure people in need can access NHS dental services when they need them. We want to make the profession attractive and fair for dentists too. Our consultation is open until 19 June, have your say here. 👇 gov.wales/reform-nhs-gen…

We want to reform dental services in Wales, to ensure people in need can access NHS dental services when they need them. We want to make the profession attractive and fair for dentists too. Our consultation closes on June 19th, have your say here. 👇 gov.wales/reform-nhs-gen…

Designed to Smile works with families and young children to encourage good oral hygiene and reduce tooth decay. 🦷A dental programme for nursery and primary school children 🪥Providing toothbrushes and fluoride toothpaste 😁Advice for families 👇 gov.wales/designed-smile…

We want to ensure that all children in Wales have healthy teeth🪥 Since 2010 through our Designed to Smile programme, 76,000 children a year experience supervised toothbrushing. This helps them learn to properly clean their teeth and prevent tooth decay. gov.wales/designed-smile…

Tooth decay is down significantly since 2008. 🦷 Our Designed to Smile programme has provided 343,000 fluoride varnish applications to children throughout Wales. 😁

A reminder that we have an open 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 for #𝐃𝐌𝐄𝐆𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓. Do you have a project to showcase? Eager to connect with like-minded colleagues and exchange innovative ideas? Full info and submission by 1 Aug here bit.ly/DMEG2025 Developing Medical Educators Group (DMEG)

FREE TO READ: Check out this new research on the public awareness of care pathways and available skill mix in NHS dental teams bit.ly/3TBMMe7 Abubakar Shaaban, PhD adrian gk edwards Natalie J-W Francesca Mazzaschi Andrew Dickenson Warren Tolley Anthony Cope (He/Him) Wales Evidence Centre

I have always known that when you hear the internal voice telling you it's time - then, there's no avoiding it. It's time. I will step down on 31 December from my role as CDO Scotland. It's been a great job and if you're interested in applying, please see jobs.gov.scot