Improve Standards in Oral Health Care through high- quality training

Our mission is to provide high-quality training, compliance support, and consultancy to care homes, ensuring that staff are equipped to deliver effective oral care

We'll equip care home staff with essential skill and knowledge to deliver effective oral care, ensuring residents' dignity, safety and quality of life.

By prioritizing high standards in oral healthcare, your care home demonstrates a commitment to dignity, safety, and quality of life for residents.

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Our training covers everything from practical techniques to regulatory compliance.

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Train the Trainer Course

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Enrol All Staff [unlimited]

Group Training

Oral Care Training for Caregivers

"Empowering caregivers with essential skills, our mouth care training equips personal care staff with the knowledge and confidence to provide exceptional oral care for residents.

Oral Champion Course

What's covered

Demonstrating Mouth Care

How to effectively brush someone else's teeth.
Tips and coping strategies for someone that resists.

Mouth Care and Dysphagia

Find out how to confidently carry out mouth care for people with swallow difficulties.

Oral Health Assessments

How to carry out an oral health assessment
Find out what to look for in the mouth.
Teeth and soft tissue findings.

Recommended Mouth Care Tools

Recommended products and tools from the dental profession for daily mouth care and end of life care.

Mouth Care and Dementia

Learn about effective evidence based tips and coping strategies for people that resist.

Compliance in Oral Healthcare

Understanding the NICE Quality Standards in Oral Healthcare.
Advice on documenting, delivering and assessing form compliance purposes.

Oral Health and the Body

Learn how poor oral health can affect your overall health and well-being.
Examples of how gum disease is linked to systemic health problems, particularly in vulnerable adults.

Diet and Cavities

Learn how certain foods and drinks affect the teeth.
Find out what are 'safe' foods and the and how the frequency of sugar consumption affects the risk of decay.

Denture Care

Evidence based best practice denture cleaning advice
How to insert and removed a denture
How to manage someone that doesn't want to remove their denture

End of Life Mouth Care

How to support and provide mouth care for someone in end of life with best practice advice.
Look and compare the end of life guidelines to include recommended products and tools.

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What Clients Say

"Great training very informative delivered at a good pace, good material sent to accompany the course as well . Thank you"

In-house Trainer

Bonehill Lodge CH

Mouthcare Management for People with Dysphagia

Staff understandably can get nervous when delivering mouth care to someone with swallow difficulties.

Autism. Consider using a non foaming, mild flavour toothpaste.

Many people on the autism spectrum sense the world differently to other people, they have difficulty processing everyday sensory informmation.

Untreated dental decay is totally preventable.

Untreated dental decay is the most common health condition worldwide and it's totally preventable!!

Mouthcare for Patients with or suspected with COVID-19

As essential oral hygiene practices become recognised more widely as a priority area, I would like to share with you the Public Health England Guidance 'Mouthcare for patients with COIVD-19 or suspected COVID-19' which ia a guide for staff more

How Frequently Should Mouth Care Be Carried out in End of Life?

Find out how often mouth care should be carried out in end of life.

Mouth Ulcers are often painful and can interfere with eating

The main symptom of mouth ulcers is typically pain! Some ulcers can be so severe that they can interfere with eating causing problems with inadequate nutrition. more

There is a difference between coloured swabs.

Find out the difference between sponge swabs

What should I do if someone refuses mouth care?

Unfortunately as people advance with dementia they often become more resistant to mouth care. Admittedly, providing good oral care for residents that are uncooperative can be

How to combat bad breath with green tea

How to combat bad breath with green tea.

Mouthcare for people with Parkinson's Disease

Evidence based recommendations

Alzheimer's could be caused by bacteria from the mouth.

HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THAT ALZHEIMERS COULD HAVE AN INFECTIOUS CAUSE! This alarming hypothesis is being supported by a growing number of scientific studies.

For residents that have a restless night ...

Dry Mouth

Oral care if often overlooked in the end of life.

Oral health is often neglected at the end of life as mouth hygiene practices may be forgotten or eliminated, this can contribute to halitosis and can impact on contact with friends and family members avoiding loved one due to bad breath and worsening a person’s isolation.

Denture Care Advice for Care Homes

Denture care advice for care homes

Why you can't afford to ignore Oral Health

In care homes pneumonia is the second most common infection after urinary tract infection, and the leading cause of death among the elderly

Spit don't rinse after tooth brushing.

Caregivers that are reading this will have noticed the amount of residents they assist with tooth brushing that present with broken teeth. Have you ever wondered why?

Should I disinfect my toothbrush after an illness?

It is not necessary to throw your toothbrush away or disinfect it if you are sick as you are unlikely to re-infect yourself.

Denture cleaning products

Firstly could I just point out that if you read the instructions on a denture cleaning product, it states that dentures should be soaked for 20minutes in other words NOT overnight.

Destroying COVID-19 in the mouth

Reducing the spread of COVID-19 respiratory droplets from the mouth

Denture wearing during sleep doubles the risk of pneumonia

Wearing dentures continually, and especially at night when salivary flow naturally diminishes, often results in a condition called denture stomatitis, the palate becomes reddened, inflamed and infected with yeast. If left unchecked can become serious and therefore guidelines for optimal denture care are important.

Mouthwash could potentially prevent the development of lung disease.

preventing development of lung disease.

Peeling of the inner lining of the lip area

Have you noticed the inner lining of your lip area peeling and wondered why?

Mouthwash kills virus in laboratory study

"Oral health must be prioritized as a tool again coronavirus"

Why we advise that care providers get feedback

in CQCs new inspection methodology they have developed SIX categories of evidence which they will use when carrying out an assessment. The first category is 'People's experiences of health and care services.