Brent Oral Health Promotion Team

Welcome we are Brent Oral health promotion team.

Our main focus is to improve the oral health of Brent children in early years� and primary school settings. There are huge inequalities in oral health with tooth decay being strongly associated with deprivation and social exclusion . Brent has 40.1% of children with decayed missing or filled teeth.

The Oral Health Promoters work with the community to create environments that promote good oral health from an early age, including:

Supporting a number of education (early years & school) settings to promote good oral health such as the supervised tooth-brushing programme
Providing dental health support to families with children under 5 years who are at high risk for developing tooth decay (dental caries); and
Working alongside other services to promote good oral health such as Brent local authority public health team, Family Wellbeing Centres support you from the moment you know you�re expecting, through pregnancy and birth, until your child is 18 years old (or up to 25 for children and young people with special educational needs), 0-19 year old and care homes.

Supervised Toothbrushing

On 2nd September 2021, school nursery and reception staff at Our Lady of Grace School in Brent received their supervised toothbrushing training certificates.