Oral Health Sessions at Maypole Primary School

It’s never too early to learn healthy  Oral Health habits!

Head Nurse Bev and Manager Lou (who is a qualified Oral Health Educator) visited Maypole Primary School on Thursday 13th June.

The reason for their visit was to deliver an engaging Oral Health Session to the Reception classes.  Maypole Primary School is a wonderful Primary School, boasting happy, engaged children who were ready to learn.  To find out more about this school, visit https://www.maypole.kent.sch.uk/

Following the 2 hour visit, Lou said “It was so much fun! We had children jumping up and down or clapping for 2 minutes; they found out that 2 minutes is longer than they thought!”

The children enjoyed the planned activities, including:

• Counting Fuggler’s teeth
• Counting their own teeth
• Renaming Fuggler (now called Peppers)
• Clapping or jumping for 2 minutes
• Brushing ‘Sugar bugs’ off of their friends
• Brushing giant teeth with a giant toothbrush!

Learning about Oral Health through play

The session covered a little on:

• How many times we need to brush our teeth each day
• How long we need to brush for
• How we need to brush our teeth.

Bev and Lou made the session fun, with Bev even joining in, when the children were singing their Tooth Brushing song.  Bev adds “It was lovely to see the children engaging in the activities, they were all so well behaved”

The Star of the Show

Aside from the smiling, happy children, another star of the show was our Fuggler, aka’Peppers’.

Peppers was used to reassure the children, going to the Dentist, is fun!  Visiting the Dentist regularly gets the children into the healthy habit of looking after their teeth.

The children told Bev and Lou how many teeth they think they have got – this ranged from 16 to 9,000… which sounds like an interesting case study for our Dartford based team!

Peppers is now in his box, until the next Dartford School visit.

Oral Health  – It’s all Fun and games

Lou and Bev loved the organised chaos of the ‘brushing team’, brushing the ‘sugar bugs’ children from their ‘toothy friends’…

…Luckily they were successful and the toothy friends were sparkling at the end of the session.

Registered Childminder Lou, aimed the session at the prime areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage, including, Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Communication and Language… mission accomplished!

Team work

Our entire team promote a ‘prevention is better than cure’ approach to Oral Health, which is why we aim these sessions at Reception aged children.  Regular check ups from an early age help promote lifelong healthy habits.

There is more information on our team, on our team page  https://www.drdc.co.uk/about/our-team/

Affordable Oral Health

Dartford Road Dental Centre is a Private Practice, offering cosmetic and general dental treatments along with dental maintenance, at competitive prices.  We have various pay monthly Denplan options available for children and adults alike.

We seek to make Private Dentistry an affordable alternative to NHS Dentistry, as we understand that sometimes the waiting lists to see a Dentist on an NHS basis, can be a little long.

Oral Health in the Dartford community

Dartford Road Dental Centre has served the people of Dartford for over 35 years and we remain committed to improving the Oral Health of our community.

We strive to provide bespoke treatment to suit individual needs and work with patients of all ages, to improve the health of their teeth and gums, so that their teeth last a lifetime!

What our patients say

Our Google reviews often speak of how at ease our patients feel.   We are here to create and maintain beautiful smiles, whether it’s your first or 50th visit to our Dartford Road practice.

We are currently accepting new patients, so if you would like to see what keeps our loyal patients coming back, give us a call on 01322 223 927.