For seriously ill children, a simple toothbrush can be critical to health and wellbeing. This is the message being delivered to medical teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) by paediatric dental consultant Urshla Devalia.
Nurses, health care assistants and doctors working at the hospital are to be trained by Ms Devalia and GOSH specialist dental nurse, Claire Fletcher, to help implement Mini Mouthcare Matters (Mini MCM).
In future, staff on paediatric wards will integrate dental health into the overall care they offer. For instance, they will ask young patients – or their parents – if they have brought in a toothbrush for their overnight stay and when they last saw a dentist.
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