Oral Hygiene
Welcome to this Dentaljuce course on Oral Hygiene.
Our course on Oral Hygiene, incorporating insights from the 'Delivering better oral health' toolkit by NHS England, offers a comprehensive exploration of oral hygiene principles essential for dental professionals. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, it looks into the findings of UK Dental Health Surveys and discusses common dental issues such as caries, periodontal diseases, and tooth wear.
The course also examines the effectiveness and suitability of powered versus manual toothbrushes, interdental cleaning techniques, and the emerging topic of sustainable toothbrushes.
This course is designed to enhance the practical skills and knowledge of dental professionals, ensuring their ability to deliver top-tier oral hygiene advice and care.
If you're not yet a member of Dentaljuce, we highly recommend you to join and gain access to our comprehensive course on Oral Hygiene.
This course, along with over 100 other CPD courses, is available for a single membership payment.
Participant Feedback Review: Oral Hygiene
Overall Participant Impression
Participants provided consistently positive feedback about the "Oral Hygiene" module, describing it as concise, informative, and highly relevant to everyday dental practice. Learners praised the clarity and practicality of the course materials, which significantly enhanced their ability to deliver effective oral hygiene instruction (OHI) to patients.
Key Strengths
Participants particularly valued:
- Clear, succinct explanations of current best practices in oral hygiene.
- Practical and relevant guidance suitable for a wide range of patients and clinical scenarios.
- Useful advice tailored specifically for different age and ability groups.
- Informative and engaging video demonstrations enhancing understanding.
Specific Positive Comments:
- "Great module and very helpful."
- "Succinct and very informative—useful for everyday patient interactions."
- "Very helpful and informative course."
- "Good concise information—easy to follow."
- "Really helpful in my daily practice, very well presented with all supporting explanations."
- "Enjoyed the module with nice video explanations."
- "Great knowledge introduced in a very condensed way."
- "Very insightful."
- "Very well structured and informative."
Areas for Improvement
Participants suggested minor improvements, including:
- Clarifying recommendations around interdental cleaning techniques, as some confusion was noted among participants regarding necessity and best practice.
Closed-Question Feedback Summary:
- Met learning objectives: 95.1% strongly agree/agree
- Good quality: 97.5% strongly agree/agree
- Useful & relevant: 95.0% strongly agree/agree
- Engaging: 97.5% strongly agree/agree
- Pitched at right level: 97.5% strongly agree/agree
These results demonstrate strong participant satisfaction, highlighting the quality, relevance, and engaging nature of the course.
Conclusion
Overall, the "Oral Hygiene" module was highly appreciated for its practical, patient-focused content and clear presentation style. It provided dental professionals with essential knowledge to effectively instruct patients in oral hygiene, significantly contributing to better patient outcomes. Clarification on interdental cleaning could further enhance this already valuable course. Participants strongly recommended it as an effective resource for professional development.
Aim
The aim of the learning and teaching materials in this Dentaljuce module is to allow learners to develop their professional knowledge and competence in delivering Oral Hygiene Instruction to improve their patients’ health, in line with their identified personal learning requirements and the requirements of the UK NHS's "Delivering better oral health" toolkit.
Course objective
- to update members of the dental team with current best practice and techniques in Oral Hygiene.
Anticipated learning outcomes:
The learner will, with respect to the components that he or she has elected to study as listed below:- Understand the principles of OHI for preventing and managing common oral diseases.
- Know the different techniques available for oral hygiene, and their advantages and disadvantages.
- Know what advice to give different patient age groups.
- Know what advice to give different patient ability groups.
- Know what advice to give according to individual risks of dental diseases.
- through achieving these outcomes, provide an improved level of service to their patients.
GDC Development Outcomes
This CPD will support the learner in meeting the following GDC Development Outcome(s): C, D.