Oral Health Basics

Welcome to the "Brushing Up on Mouth Care" education series. In this series, we are focusing on personal daily mouth care for older adults. Many older adults experience a decline in physical and mental health as they age. This often leaves them dependant on others to assist them with their personal care needs

There are five learning modules in this series that relate to various aspects of providing daily mouth care. http://www.ahprc.dal.ca/projects/oral...


This is module number one, Oral Health Basics.

In this session we will review:
a) the Importance of oral health
b) Dental Disease
c) Prevention - How can you help prevent dental disease?
d) Daily oral health assessments
e) Personal oral care
a. Tool kits
b. Care cards
f) The role of the care provider (in delivering daily oral care)

Please note that these educational videos were developed for use in Long Term Care and therefore the term 'resident' is used throughout to describe the recipient of care. However, this information is also valuable to those providing care in other settings such as home care and acute care. In these instances, please take the term 'resident' to mean client, patient, loved one, or whatever term best describes the person you are caring for.

Please review Terms of Use Agreement for the 'Brushing Up on Mouth Care' educational video series. http://www.ahprc.dal.ca/projects/oral...