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Oral Health Risk Assessment Training for Pediatricians and Other Child Health Professionals
This training is designed to support pediatricians and child health providers as they implement oral health risk assessments during well-child visits.

The training provides participants with an understanding of:

· The role of the child health care professional in assessing children’s oral health
· The pathogenesis of caries
· Conducting an oral health risk assessment (including oral screening exam)
· Providing appropriate oral health education to families
· Developing a management plan with referrals to a dental home

List of Oral Health Programs

Below you will find some examples of Oral Health programs. To view the entire list, click here.

Bright Futures In Practice: Oral Health Pocket Guide
This guide provides an overview of the publication Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health. Information included is specific to each developmental period and addresses risk assessment for dental caries, periodontal disease, malocclusion, and injury.

Opening the Mouth
This Web-based training program provides non-oral-health professionals with an introduction to oral health and tooth decay in infants and toddlers. This program discusses the prevalence of tooth decay among children, tooth decay as a chronic disease, unmet oral health care needs among children, and the consequences of these unmet needs.

Promoting Children's Oral Health
This curriculum is written for those working in the field of early care and education with an interest
in promoting oral health, including health and Early Care and Education (ECE) professionals,
such as Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs), school nurses and Child Care Health Advocate
(CCHAs). This curriculum provides up-to-date information and strategies to promote oral
health that are specifi c to infants and young children. It also provides effective and practical
lesson plans for child care providers, parents and children.

Special Care: An Oral Health Professional's Guide to Serving Young Children with Speal Health Care Needs
This curriculum provides oral health professionals with information to ensure that young children with special health care needs have acess to health-promotion and disease-prevention services that address their unique oral health needs in a comprehensive, family-centered, and community-based manner.