Protect Tiny Teeth Toolkit: Helping You Help Moms
Oral health during pregnancy and infancy is especially important to set little ones up for a lifetime of good health. Moms want to know how to keep themselves and their babies happy and healthy — that’s why they come to you for guidance. This toolkit makes it easier than ever to help connect moms to the oral health answers they need, providing healthy tips to patients and conversation tactics to providers like you.
How to Use
- Review
Scroll down to find links to the Protect Tiny Teeth Implementation Guide and the Overview & Results Report -read to find out how 8 practices successfully utilized the toolkit. - Download
Scroll down to find links to download resources in English and Spanish. - Print
Each download comes with a file ready to print from your office and one with bleed lines and crop marks for your local print shop — so where and how you print is up to you. - Distribute
Post your newly-printed posters on your office lobby’s walls, hand out brochures to patients, tweet to local moms — or do all three!
Implementation Guide and Overview & Results Report
Click here to review the Protect Tiny Teeth Implementation Guide, intended for prenatal care providers and others who care for pregnant people and their families interested in oral health medical-dental integration.
Click here to review the Protect Tiny Teeth Implementation Project Overview & Results Report. The goal of the project was to implement Protect Tiny Teeth tools in practice and help the pilot sites to improve oral health of their pregnant population.
Social Media Toolkit
Click here for a social media toolkit for partners reaching providers and mothers.
Toolkit for Healthcare Professionals
This toolkit contains materials for both patient outreach and education around oral health as well as clinical resources to help integrate oral health into your practice. The toolkit has four waiting room posters, three infographics, one brochure, dental referral forms, a conversation guide, an oral health screener, and an integration workflow.
Most states cover dental care under Medicaid during pregnancy. If your state is among them, you'll find state-specific resources in the toolkit. If not, select "Generic" in the drop-down menu.
Each material can be downloaded separately below.
Want to customize these materials with your organization's logo? Fill out the permission request form.
Complete Provider Toolkit
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Oral Health Resources for Prenatal Patients
Patient Outreach: These Materials and touchpoints are created for you to use for any outreach efforts around oral health.
Clinical Practice: These materials and touchpoints are created for you to use within your practice.
Patient Outreach
Video
Moms-to-be (47 sec)
This 47 second animation is great to share on social media or play in waiting rooms. When you click "download", you will be taken to Vimeo where you can download the video from there.
Poster
Now You're Brushing For Two
This poster can be displayed in waiting room areas. The printer-ready file is designed enlarged to 18x24 at a printer. (*If selecting a language other than English and Spanish, please select "Generic" under the State option.)
Poster
Medical Clinical Waiting Room
This poster can be displayed in waiting room areas. The printer-ready file is designed enlarged to 18x24 at a printer.
Poster
Dental Waiting Room
This poster can be displayed in dental office waiting room areas. The printer-ready file is designed enlarged to 18x24 at a printer.
Infographic
Prenatal Oral Health Information
This infographic can be given to patients as a take-home resource, shared on social media, or posted in a waiting area. The printer-ready file is designed enlarged to 18x24 at a printer.
Infographic
Dental Care During Pregnancy
This infographic can be given to patients as a take-home resource, shared on social media, or posted in a waiting area.
Brochure
Questions Moms Ask About Oral Health
This three-panel brochure contains commons questions new moms have about oral health along with answers. This brochure can be used to assist oral health conversations with patients and can also be given as a take-home resource.
Clinical Practice
Workflow
Adding Preventative Oral Health Care Into Your Practice
This workflow can be displayed in the admin area of your office to demonstrate how you can integrate preventative oral health into your practice.
Guide
Prenatal Oral Health Information Form and Corresponding Conversation Guide
When patients arrive, have them complete the Oral Health Intake Form. Count their response letters to each question to determine if they answered mostly A, B or C. Use the top letter score as the starting place for oral health discussions with patients in the corresponding conversation guide.
Visual Screening Guide
Prenatal Oral Health Screening
Print out this screener and keep it with you as a guide for conducting oral health screenings with patients.
Referral Form
Prenatal Medical-to-Dental Referral
After conducting the oral health screening, fill in your findings and refer patients to a dentist — whether they need treatment or a routine cleaning.
Oral Health Resources for Families with Infants
Patient Outreach: These materials and touchpoints are created for you to use for any outreach efforts around oral health.
Clinical Practice: These materials and touchpoints are created for you to use within your practice.
Patient Outreach
Brochure
Questions Moms Ask About Oral Health
This three-panel brochure contains commons questions new moms have about oral health along with answers. This brochure can be used to assist oral health conversations with patients and can also be given as a take-home resource.
Poster
Protect Tiny Teeth
This poster can be displayed in waiting room areas. The printer-ready file is designed enlarged to 18x24 at a printer.
Infographic
Infant Oral Health Information
This infographic can be given to patients as a take-home resource, shared on social media, or posted in a waiting area. The printer-ready file is designed enlarged to 18x24 at a printer.
Video
New Moms (47 sec)
This 47-second video is great to share on social media or play in waiting rooms. When you click “download,” you’ll be taken to Vimeo where you can download the file from there.
Clinical Practice
Referral Form
Pediatric Medical-to-Dental Care Referral
After conducting an oral health screening, fill in your findings and refer patients to a dentist — whether they need treatment or a routine cleaning.
Assessment
Oral Health Risk Assessment Tool
This tool can guide you through an oral health assessment of pediatric patients and document their risk of caries.
Guide
Brush, Book, Bed Implementation Resources
This resource is designed to help link three important health messages — brush the child’s teeth, read together, and set a regular bedtime — into one message about nighttime routines.
Goal Sheet
Self Management Goal Sheet for Parents and Caregivers
Identify realistic goals for parents to implement with their children to improve their oral health. Keep the sheet as a record of the goals so you can check back in on progress during visits.
Guide
Implementation Guide and Overview & Results Report
The Implementation Guide is intended for prenatal care providers and others who care for pregnant people and their families interested in oral health medical-dental integration using Protect Tiny Teeth resources. The Overview & Results Report from the Protect Tiny Teeth Implementation Project: A prenatal oral health medical-dental integration quality improvement project, describes five tool tested during the project and how well they were adopted by the pilot sites.”
This content is supported by the Grant or Cooperative Agreement Number, [6 NH23IP000952-04-01], funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or the Department of Health and Human Services.
Need more help or have questions? Email oralhealth@aap.org for more information.
Additional Resources
Last Updated
12/10/2020
Source
American Academy of Pediatrics