**This page is currently being updated**
Oral Health Improvement
BASCD’s role in oral health improvement is to ensure that oral and dental health is included within the general health considerations of organisations and individuals. The aim is to promote oral health through both the dental team and the wider workforce. As part of this aim. BASCD governs and oversees the actions of Faculty of Public Health – Oral Health Special Interest Group (FPH OHI SIG). You can access the FPH OHI SIG webpage and its action plan here https://www.fph.org.uk/policy-advocacy/special-interest-groups/oral-health-sig-bascd/.
This page is split into four sections that are currently being developed.
SECTION ONE - National Programmes
An overview of national programmes for each of the four nations, including contact details for key individuals for further information.
SECTION TWO - Resources
A list of documents, toolkits and other resources that are based on evidence, and that can be used to underpin a variety of dental public health activities. You will also find a list of organisations that BASCD supports with links to their individual webpages.
SECTION THREE - Published Papers
An archive of recently published papers to support evidence-based working.
SECTION FOUR - Consultation
An area for user interaction and will aid engagement with relevant consultations, papers and reports that BASCD is working on, either as the lead author or in partnership with other organisations.
BASCD values the experience and knowledge of members and actively welcomes their input. It is BASCD’s ability to draw on the wide range of expertise within the membership that makes the organisation the leading voice in the UK on population oral health. From time to time, members will be notified of consultations and invited to respond. Members’ views will be collated along with those of Council in the official BASCD response. This is an area that BASCD Council wants to encourage to ensure that members’ views are accurately and effectively represented in the work that it does.
Activities
Epidemiology
Research
Teaching and Training
Dental Public Health Consultants and Specialists
Membership