The 'healthy teeth' fact sheets and guidelines below provide information for use by the general public, health professionals and community health service providers.
These resources can also be used for waiting rooms, chair side oral health promotion, oral and dental health educational sessions or other oral health promotion initiatives.
To request the high quality printed versions, or to provide feedback on these resources, please contact Health Promotion, 9341 1203, email: healthpromotion@dhsv.org.au
Dental health fact sheets - maintaining healthy teeth
Basic dental health tip cards for parents
Eat well [PDF, 575KB]
Drink well [PDF, 534KB]
Clean well [PDF, 546KB]
Play well [PDF, 696KB]
Stay well [PDF, 595KB]
Also available in Arabic, Chinese, Macedonian, Somali, Turkish or Vietnamese from our Translated materials page.
Dental advice and tooth tips - babies and young children
These three tooth tip cards provide key oral health information for parents, grandparents or carers. They include information on baby (primary) teeth, teething, teeth cleaning and foods for healthy teeth.
Also available in Arabic, Chinese, Macedonian, Somali, Turkish or Vietnamese from our Translated materials page.
Dental ‘how to’ charts
How to brush charts are also available in Arabic, Chinese, Somali, Turkish or Vietnamese from our Translated materials page.
Early childhood oral health program card
Protecting your mouth fact sheets
Dental and oral health advice for population groups
Resources for kids
A range of stickers, swap cards colouring sheets and other activities around the key messages Eat well, Drink well and Clean well, featuring the Defenders of the Tooth are available to order from the DHSV Health Promotions team.
To order, please contact 9341 1203 or email healthpromotion@dhsv.org.au. For more information and activities visit our page For teachers.
- Stickers - The stickers are for children and feature the defenders of the tooth characters munch girl (supporting Eat well), water boy (supporting Drink well) and brush boy (supporting Clean well).
- Swap cards - These playing cards for children feature the defenders of the tooth characters munch girl, water boy, brush boy, which support the key messages; Eat well, Drink well and Clean well.
- Posters - These three posters feature munch girl, water boy and brush boy and support the key messages of Eat well, Drink well and Clean well.
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