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Oral health for adults

Posted: 08/03/2024

Resources to help you get started

Public Health England and stakeholders have produced the toolkit to support care homes and commissioners to implement the NICE guideline (NG48): Oral health for adults in care homes.

The toolkit contains materials to support health champions within care homes to train care home staff.  These include training slides, a manual with more information, recorded webinars and a catalogue of quality-assured online videos to support training.

For care home managers, there are oral health policy templates, a quality assurance checklist and a baseline assessment to help care home managers put NICE guidance into practice.  The toolkit also includes links to all the key oral health publications relating to care homes.

There are useful links for care home staff, residents, their families and friends to support good oral health and reduce oral health inequalities.

Useful contacts in Devon

Oral training providers

Care teams, especially health champions, can benefit from interactive training from a mouth care clinical trainer. This may be a dental care professional or speech and language therapist with appropriate experience.

Free oral health education training

The Oral Health Improvement Team support the oral health of children and cared for adults in Devon. Could you, or colleagues pass on prevention messages and benefit from free training? Please contact rduh.oralhealtheducation@nhs.net or telephone 01392 405705.

Dental access

The dental helpline gives advice to people in Devon and Cornwall on where to find an NHS dentist, how to access dental care in an emergency and out of hours. Tel: 03330 063 300 Email: accessdentalhelpline@nhs.net

For more information on how to find a dentist you can also visit the NHS website:

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/how-to-find-an-nhs-dentist/

Urgent dental care

People who have a dental practice and use it regularly should contact their dentist by phone to seek a referral. All NHS dental surgeries should be accessible by telephone.

For patients who do not have access to a regular dentist for routine care and require urgent treatment, this can be accessed as follows:

  • Plymouth: 01752 434664 (Monday – Friday 8.45am – 5.00pm). Outside these hours, contact the dental helpline 03330 063 300.
  • Rest of Devon: 03330 063 300.
Community Dental Service

For Adult or Children with additional needs. The following community dental services also provide dental care for people with complex needs who meet the relevant eligibility criteria. They take referrals from dentists and from other health and social care professionals in their catchment area. Please see websites for more information regarding criteria and referrals.

Exeter, Mid, East and North Devon
Devon Community Dental Service:

Torbay and South Devon Community Dental Services:

Plymouth Community Dentistry:

Domiciliary dental care providers

The following providers are contracted to provide domiciliary dental care in Devon by NHS England. These providers would be your first contact point if seeking care for a person who cannot travel to a dental practice.

Torrington Dental Practice: Tarka House, Halsdon Terrace, Torrington,

Torrington, Barnstaple, Bideford and local area

Holsworthy Dental Service: Bodmin St, Holsworthy EX22 6BB

Okehampton, North Cornwall Border, Holsworthy

Ilfracombe, Braunton, Combe Martin

Mid Devon, Exeter, East Devon, South Hams, Plymouth, Torbay.

Domiciliary dental care for people with complex needs:

Please see Community Dental Services information above

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