Oral Health Promotion in Children in Kingston

The proposed service aims to improve the oral health of children (aged under 12) and to reduce oral health inequalities in this Kingston population, by providing Oral Health Promotion interventions over a 3 year period (2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27) including an early years supervised toothbrushing programme, oral health education in selected primary schools, and provision and education support of toothbrush packs through Health Visitor child development checks.

• Develop and maintain an early years supervised toothbrushing programme (STP), with a focus on maintained nurseries;
• Extension of the priority primary schools oral health education scheme which is already being delivered, into 10 further schools
• Provision of toothbrush packs and education to under 5s and their parents/ carers through health visitor child development milestone checks.