Oral Health Resources: Teaching Materials

Common Oral Diseases, slide set. An introduction to oral disease including periodontal disease and dental caries and their prevention. Also describes how a health worker should examine a patient's mouth and gives details of the common problems that a dental worker meets.

Oral Health Resources 

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Common Oral Diseases, slide set. 

An introduction to oral disease including periodontal disease and dental caries and their prevention. Also describes how a health worker should examine a patient's mouth and gives details of the common problems that a dental worker meets.

Order from :

TALC

PO Box 49, St Albans

Herts, AL1 5TX

UK

tel : + 44 1727 853869 : fax : + 441727 846852

e-mail : info@talcuk.org : website : www.talcuk.org

Guide For Safety and infection Control for Oral Healthcare Missions 

This is a practical guide to providing safe dental care in low-resource settings.

Available from :

OSAP-Organization for Safety & Asepsis Procedures 

A Global Dental Safety Organization

P. O. Box 6297

Annapolis, MD 21401

USA

tel : 1 : 300-298-6727 ; fax : 1-410-571-0028

e-mail : office@osap.org ; website : www.osap.org 

A Teacher Resource to Support Dental Health Education, 

an illustrated manual for teachers of Kindergarten through Grade 5. Includes lesson plans and activities. 

More information from :

Government of Saskatchewan

3475 Albert Street

Regina, SK 54S 6X6

CANADA

DENTAL AID ORGANIZATIONS 

A listing of organizations around the world that provide different types of assistance for oral health education, training, and care can be downloaded from the internet here :

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FDI World Dental Federation 

Tour de Cointrin

Case Postal 3

1216 Geneve-Cointrin

SWITZERLAND

tel : 41-22-560-81-50

fax : 41-22-560-81-40

e-mail : info@fdiworldental.org

website : http//:www.fdiworldental.org

World Health Organization (WHO) Oral Health Programme 

Avenue Appia 20

1211 Geneva 27

SWITZERLAND

tel : 41-22-791-3475

fax : 41-22-791-4866

website : http://www.who.int/oral_health

WHO has a Focal Point for Oral Health in each of its regional offices around

the world. This web page gives contact information for each regional office, as

well as other resources :

http://www.who.int/oral_health/partners/en/

WHO Collaborating Centre for Promoting Community-based Oral
Health ModeIs, Intercountry Center for Oral Health (ICOH) 

Ministry of Public Health 

548 Ban Nong Hoi,

Chiang-Mai-Lamphun Road,

Muang, Chiang Mai 50000

THAILAND

tel : 66-53-801160, 66-53-277027

fax : 66-53-281909

e-mail : icoh@icoh.org. icoh@loxinfo.co.th

website : http://www.icoh.org

http://www.hivdent.org

This website includes treatment information and training resources to improve oral health for people with HIV.

Regional Centre for Oral Health Research & Training Initiatives 

No 3c CBN Road

PMB 2067, Jos

Plateau State, NIGERIA

tel : 234-73-462-901

fax : 234-73-462-901

e-mail : hdanfillo@yahoo.com,

isdanfillo@rcortiafro.org

website : http://www.rcortiafro.org 

Basic Package of Oral Care 

This a WHO-affiliated program that aims to include preventive and curative oral health into the primary health care system in a way that is affordable and achievable for low-income communities. It includes urgent treatment (pain relief and emergency treatment), affordable fluoridated toothpaste, and A traumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) which removes cavities and diseased parts of teeth without drilling. For more information :

Department of Global Oral Health, Nijmegen

Radboud University

Nijmegen Medical Center

P. O. Box 9101

6500 HB Nijmegen

THE NETHERLANDS

e-mail : info@globaloralhealth-nijmegen.nl 

tel : 31-24-361-6995

fax : 31-24-354-0265

website : http://www.globaloralhealthnijmegen.nl

International No-Noma Federation 

C/o Winds of Hope Foundation

20 avenue de Florimont

CH 1006 Lausanne

SWITZERLAND

tel : 41-21-320-77-22

fax : 41-21-320-77-00

e-mail : info@nonoma.org

website : http://www.nonoma.org/en 

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