Expert Mouth-Care Training for Caregivers | Knowledge Oral Healthcare

Our mission is to provide expert mouth-care training, compliance support, and consultancy, giving care home staff the confidence to deliver excellent oral care.

We'll equip care home staff with essential skills and knowledge to deliver effective mouth-care, ensuring residents' dignity, safety, and quality of life.

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Our training covers everything from practical techniques to regulatory compliance.

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"Empowering caregivers with essential skills, our mouth care training equips personal care staff with the knowledge and confidence to provide exceptional oral care for residents.

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Expert Mouth-Care Training for Caregivers

What's covered

Demonstrating Mouth Care

How to effectively brush someone else's teeth.
Tips and coping strategies for someone that resists.

Mouth Care and Dysphagia

Find out how to confidently carry out mouth care for people with swallow difficulties.

Oral Health Assessments

How to carry out an oral health assessment
Find out what to look for in the mouth.
Teeth and soft tissue findings.

Recommended Mouth Care Tools

Recommended products and tools from the dental profession for daily mouth care and end of life care.

Mouth Care and Dementia

Learn about effective evidence based tips and coping strategies for people that resist.

Compliance in Oral Healthcare

Understanding the NICE Quality Standards in Oral Healthcare.
Advice on documenting, delivering and assessing form compliance purposes.

Oral Health and the Body

Learn how poor oral health can affect your overall health and well-being.
Examples of how gum disease is linked to systemic health problems, particularly in vulnerable adults.

Diet and Cavities

Learn how certain foods and drinks affect the teeth.
Find out what are 'safe' foods and the and how the frequency of sugar consumption affects the risk of decay.

Denture Care

Evidence based best practice denture cleaning advice
How to insert and removed a denture
How to manage someone that doesn't want to remove their denture

End of Life Mouth Care

How to support and provide mouth care for someone in end of life with best practice advice.
Look and compare the end of life guidelines to include recommended products and tools.

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What Clients Say

"Great training very informative delivered at a good pace, good material sent to accompany the course as well . Thank you"

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Bonehill Lodge CH

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