Dental Health Services Victoria

On this page find dental and oral health brochures and guides which can be used by health professionals, community service providers and the general public. These resources can be used for your general information, for waiting rooms, chair side oral health promotion, oral health educational sessions or other oral health promotion initiatives.

To request the high quality printed versions, please contact the Health Promotion team on 9341 1203 or email healthpromotion@dhsv.org.au

Also available in Arabic, Chinese, Macedonian, Somali, Turkish or Vietnamese from our Translated materials page.

Dental advice and tooth tips - babies and young children

• Tooth tips for children aged 0 - 12 months (PDF, 472KB)
• Tooth tips for children aged 12 - 18 months (PDF, 486KB)
• Tooth tips for children aged 18 months - 6 years (PDF, 396KB)

Also available in Arabic, Chinese, Macedonian, Somali, Turkish or Vietnamese from our Translated materials page.

Dental ‘how to’ charts

• How to floss your teeth  | (How to floss, PDF, 222KB)
• How to brush your teeth  | (How to brush - including how to clean your dentures PDF, 534KB)
• How to brush your child’s teeth (PDF, 269KB)

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 

• The early childhood oral health program card (PDF, 214KB) provides information on access for preschool aged children to public oral health services.

Protecting your mouth fact sheets

• Protecting your mouth: all you need to know about mouth and tongue piercing 
• (PDF, 114KB)
• Protecting your mouth: all you need to know about tobacco, alcohol, recreational drugs 
• (PDF, 118KB)
• Tobacco, alcohol and recreational drugs: how do they affect oral health? 
• (PDF, 120KB) Information for Youth Workers

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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