Resource Hub

• Oral Health Foundation - Have a Dental Helpline to help give you the very best information, advice and support about the health of your mouth. Tel 01788 539780.

• NHS: 'Take care of your teeth and gums' - information for how you and your children can have healthy teeth and keep trips to the dentist to a minimum.

• Oral Health Foundation - Teen's Teeth: This website provides a range of information on dental health.

• Change4Life: This family snack challenge leaflet is filled with fun challenges for families to try at home. You can also find information about 'sugar swaps' here.

It is important for young people to attend the dentist as regularly as the dentist advises. Use this tool from the NHS to find a dentist.

• Oral Health Foundation: The Dental Buddy programme hosts a series of educational resources for early years learning in KS2.

• Change4Life: This Healthier snacking school council toolkit for KS2 was developed with teachers and has a range of fun activity ideas for school councils to promote healthier snacking.

• Change4Life: Here you will find a KS2 comic-style story, keeping our teeth healthy, for science lessons to teach pupils about dental health.

Dental Buddy is a programme that provides educational resources for Early Years' Education, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two. These include activity sheets, lesson plans and interactive presentations, all of which are freely downloadable.

This range of lesson resources from Better Health, Healthier Families (formerly Change 4 Life) provides ideas for teachers on lesson delivery from Healthy eating & cooking to Keeping our teeth healthy.

• BBC - Operation Ouch: This short (28 minute) TV episode explores more about our teeth including why they are different shapes and sizes.

The video demonstrates effective tooth brushing at home for children aged 7 years and older. This video had been created with support from the Institute of Dentistry at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London.

• Dr Ranj: Well known TV doctor and CBBC children's presenter, Dr Ranj, has made this age related video to help children, aged 7+, brush their teeth correctly.