Oral Health Recommendations - Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines

Comprehensive database of oral health recommendations from UK, Scotland, and international guidelines.

Evidence-Based Oral Health Recommendations

Comprehensive database of oral health recommendations from leading international guidelines. Search across UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand evidence-based recommendations.

Database Overview

94

Evidence-Based Recommendations

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2

Clinical Guidelines

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3

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International Coverage

15

Clinical Topics

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Countries & Guidelines

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England
Main Guideline:

Delivering better oral health: an evidence-based toolkit for prevention

(Public Health England (PHE))
79

recommendations

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Scotland
Main Guideline:

Dental interventions to prevent caries in children

(Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN))
15

recommendations

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Dietary advice should focus on reducing the frequency and amount of sugar consu…
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Strong Moderate Evidence

Dietary advice should focus on reducing the frequency and amount of sugar consumption to prevent dental caries.

Diet and Nutrition

Assign a shortened recall interval based on dental caries risk.

Assessment and Care Planning

It’s not recommended to use vital staining, oral cytology or light‐based detection and/or oral spectroscopy for evaluating lesions for malignancy.

General

Ask patients if they use smokeless tobacco, using the names that the various products are known by locally. It may be helpful to show a …

General

Obtain an updated medical, social and dental history and perform an intraoral and extraoral visual and tactile examination for all patients at each oral health …

Assessment and Care Planning

Act on patient response: • refer people who want to stop smoking to local stop smoking support, preferably where behavioural support and prescribed stop smoking …

Behaviour Change
All children should have fluoride varnish applied to their teeth at least twice…
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Strong High Evidence

All children should have fluoride varnish applied to their teeth at least twice yearly to prevent dental caries.

Fluoride
Children under 3 years of age should use a smear of toothpaste containing at le…
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Strong High Evidence

Children under 3 years of age should use a smear of toothpaste containing at least 1000 ppm fluoride.

Fluoride

If AUDIT C score is 4 or below, give positive feedback and encourage your patient to keep their drinking at lower risk levels.If score is …

Oral Cancer Screening

Parent or carer to assist and supervise toothbrushing if required.

Toothbrushing

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