Childsmile: the national child oral health improvement programme in Scotland. Part 2: monitoring and delivery

Turner, Stephen; Brewster, L.; Kidd, Jamie; Gnich, Wendy; Ball, G. E.; Milburn, Keith; Pitts, Nigel; Goold, Susan Dorr; Conway, David I.; Macpherson, L. M. D.

doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.629

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“…13 The Childsmile programme is currently being evaluated and it will be interesting to see if the trajectory of oral health improvement achieved is sustainable in the long-term. 14,15 Designed to Smile is a similar programme in Wales delivering supervised toothbrushing programmes and fluoride varnish applications. 7 Dental treatments are delivered at nursery and school sites using a mobile dental vehicle.…”

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Recruitment and participation in pre-school and school-based fluoride varnish pilots – the South Central experience

Buckingham

John

2013

Br Dent J

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Younger children need to be targeted if improvement in the oral health of five-year-olds is to be achieved, the only dental measure in the Public Health Outcomes Framework, but they were less likely to cooperate. More research is needed on approaches to maximise participation in community programmes such as this, if they are to achieve significant population-level improvements in child dental health.

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Recruitment and participation in pre-school and school-based fluoride varnish pilots – the South Central experience

Buckingham

John

2013

Br Dent J

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“…preschool children, have provided young children from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds with essential preventive oral care. 23 The programme offers these children an opportunity to engage in preventive procedures in a relaxed atmosphere and the potential to increase confidence to take care of their own oral health. Dental staff have reported to the research team that some children are overtly anxious on arrival to the dental nurse team for their fluoride varnish application.…”

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The behaviour of preschool children receiving fluoride varnish application in a community setting

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Dental staff working with preschool children are recommended to use encouragement-centred strategies to promote nonverbal cooperative behaviours in children. In addition, procedure instruments could be considered as a tool to gain child cooperation. Evidence of an autocorrelation effect of child behaviour was found, indicating that the early presentation of child behaviour predicted the behaviour of the child at later stages.

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“…1 It is an important part of a National Health Service (NHS) initiative to improve the oral health of children in Scotland known as Childsmile. 2,3 The General Dental Council (GDC) has allowed dental nurses to develop additional skills to undertake fluoride varnish applications under the GDC Scope of practice guidance. 4,5 The guidance stresses that the application of fluoride varnish by a dental nurse must be part of a programme which is overseen by a consultant in dental public health or a registered specialist Background Extended duties dental nurses (EDDNs) have been trained to deliver fluoride varnish applications to preschool children as part of the Childsmile initiative in Scotland.…”

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The behaviour of extended duties dental nurses and the acceptance of fluoride varnish application in preschool children

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Childsmile: the national child oral health improvement programme in Scotland. Part 2: monitoring and delivery

Cited by 41 publications

References 5 publications

Recruitment and participation in pre-school and school-based fluoride varnish pilots – the South Central experience

Recruitment and participation in pre-school and school-based fluoride varnish pilots – the South Central experience

The behaviour of preschool children receiving fluoride varnish application in a community setting

The behaviour of extended duties dental nurses and the acceptance of fluoride varnish application in preschool children

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