The Oral Health Podcast

Discover expert tips, practical advice, and the latest insights to improve your oral health. 

Dr Sarovi Davda has decades of experience in dentistry with a focus on gum health, and joins us today to t…

Find out how acidic foods and drinks harm your teeth, and how to protect your smile with simple changes to your diet and daily habits.

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Salivary gland cancers are rare, affecting just 5 people out of one million, but it's just as important to raise awareness of this often misunderstood and misdiagnosed condition.

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There is a lot of clever branding on oral health products that can make you think you need the £25 toothpaste or the £500 toothbrush. In reality, whilst sometimes it's great to splurge on a luxury pr…

Gillian Howie, Consultant in Special Care Dentistry for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), joins us to talk about the challenges of accessing dental care when you have a disabil…

40% of adults in the UK don’t go to the dentist regularly because it’s too expensive.

That’s just not acceptable. We need to work on improving the NHS contract and making it fairer for everyone.

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We need to expand dental school places, improve career development in dentistry, and better utilise existing skills within the wider team. We also need to think about how to make dentistry more appea…

Creating a healthcare system that acknowledges good oral health leads to a healthier society, can cut costs and lessens the burden on health services.

It’s a no-brainer.

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Setting aside specific government money for teaching people about taking care of their teeth can help everyone learn how to prevent oral health problems.

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Changing the rules around buying tobacco so that no one born after 2009 will be able to purchase it will mean that we are taking proactive steps to save the health of the next generations.

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Many drinks you can buy at coffee shops have more sugar than what an adult should have in a whole day. Yet under the current sugar tax rules, they’re exempt.

That needs to change.

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Toothbrushing in schools can significantly reduce oral health issues, yielding cost savings on the treatment of childhood decay within the lifetime of a government.

This is part 1 in our 10 part minis…

Oral health promotion teams have been facing budget cuts in recent years and it’s time to restore them to their former glory.

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Water fluoride programmes are already in place in some parts of the country - we happen to be from two of them - and we see the difference they can make on your oral health. This is a no-brainer, we …

In the run up to the UK general election, listen to our ask for policymakers. We hope this encourages them to listen to the public and brush up on their oral health to give the country what it needs.…

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