This content will help you to recognise the importance of mouth care, improve your knowledge and enable you to care for someone’s mouth. All healthcare professionals including nurses and care staff have a vital role in promoting good oral health, supporting and enabling effective mouth care and preventing discomfort and inadequate nutrition. Please note: You are not expected to diagnose problems in the mouth but to recognise when an individual may need support or referral to a dental team.

This course has been designed to ensure that you hold an awareness of Oral Health and understand how to cater for the dental care of your clients. 

The main points covered are:

- Understand the importance of oral health and the potential effect on their general health, well-being and dignity

- Understand the potential impact of untreated dental pain or mouth infection on the behaviour and general health and well-being of people who cannot articulate their pain or distress or ask for help ( this includes, for example, residents with dementia or communication difficulties)

- Know how to deliver daily mouth care

- Know how and when to reassess oral health

- Know how and when to report any oral health concerns, and how to respond to a person's changing needs and circumstances

- Understand the importance of denture marking and how to arrange this for people, with their permission 

eLearning courses are designed to be interactive to help learners stay focused and engaged in the learning they are faced with.
The courses require the learner to perform small actions within the course, revealing further information, or quiz questions to help them reflect upon previous course content they have studied. A CPD certificate can be downloaded on completion.