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Annotation: This video library is designed for pediatricians wishing to integrate oral health care into well-child visits, as well as for parents. The library contains one video correlating with each well-child visit, from the 2-month visit to the age-5 visit.

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Keywords: Dental caries, Maine, Oral health, Prevention, Service integration, State materials, Videos, Young children

Annotation: This series of three animated videos provides information on how to brush teeth and floss properly. It also provides information about foods and drinks that are more and less likely to cause tooth decay and discusses the importance of drinking water.

• How To Brush
• How To Floss

Keywords: Dental caries, Drinking water, Oral health, Oral hygiene, Videos

Annotation: The goal of this training for school nurses and non-oral-health professionals is to equip participants with the knowledge and tools they need to perform oral health screenings for school-age children, with a focus on identifying early signs of tooth decay. The training comprises three sections (tabs): sample letters, videos, and exam. Sample letters include a consent form, a risk-assessment report, a parent questionnaire, and a screening results letter. Videos include trainings with and without a fluoride-application component. The exam section includes a caries risk assessment, screening results letter, and an appendix of physical findings for oral health risk assessment.

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Keywords: Dental caries, Fluoride, Forms, Health screening, Informed consent, Oral health, Prevention, Risk assessment, School age children, Training, Videos

Annotation: This training provides information to help kindergarten through grade 2 teachers incorporate oral health education into their curricula, with the goal of empowering students to maintain good oral hygiene, educating them on the importance of oral hygiene and preventive oral health care, and helping build healthy habits and understand the link between oral health and overall well-being. The training comprises three sections (tabs): teacher materials, lessons, and videos. Teacher materials include handouts and a 30-minute training video. The lessons and videos sections include materials to use with students.

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Keywords: Videos, Curricula, Dental caries, Health care utilization, Oral health, Oral health education, Oral hygiene, Prevention, School age children, School health, Training

Annotation: This video series includes five videos: Caries Risk Assessment with a Teen, Dental Appointment Navigation for Teens, Goal Setting with a 5-Year-Old and Parent, Goal Setting with an 8-Year-Old and Parent, Oral Health Assessment with a Young Teen, and Oral Health Conversation with a Teen with Braces and a Piercing. Each video demonstrates using health-literacy techniques to improve communication, such as using plain language, asking open-ended questions, using affirming statements, reflecting back on the patient’s statements, helping patients establish realistic goals, and using visual aids.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Dental caries, Goals, Health literacy, Oral health, Prevention, School age children, Videos

Annotation: This toolkit is a collection of resources designed to help health professional provide preventive oral health care in pediatric and prenatal care settings. It includes short videos, posters, and infographics as well as a sample clinical workflow. Also included are a prenatal oral health conversation guide, a pediatric oral health risk-assessment tool, and other resources. The resources can be downloaded or can be printed for use in clinic waiting areas and exam rooms and can be customized with an organization logo. The toolkit is available in Arabic, Cambodian, English, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Taiwanese.

• PDF

Keywords: Infant health, Non English language materials, Oral health, Posters, Pregnant women, Prevention, Risk assessment, Videos

Annotation: This video for pregnant women and parents describes steps to promote good oral health for their infant. Steps include taking care of the woman’s mouth during pregnancy, cleaning the infant’s gums daily, brushing the infant’s teeth with fluoridated toothpaste, taking the infant to the dentist when the first tooth erupts or by age 1, and avoiding giving the infant drinks with added sugar. In addition to English, the video is available in the following languages: Arabic, English, French, Nepali, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, and Vietnamese.

• English
• All Languages

Keywords: Asian language materials, Consumer education materials, Infant health, Non English language materials, Oral health, Oral hygiene, Prevention, Spanish language materials, Videos

Annotation: These resources offers instructions for how to provide five essential oral health services (caries risk assessment, knee-to-knee oral examination, fluoride varnish application, education/anticipatory guidance, and referral for a dental home) during a well-child visit. The tool also includes steps for fluoride varnish application and photographs to help health professionals identify tooth decay in infants and young children. A fluoride-varnish-progress-note template is included.

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• Link

Keywords: Dental caries, Fluoride varnish, Infant health, Oral health, Prevention, Videos, Young children

Annotation: These videos provide information for children about how to keep their mouths healthy. The first video discusses toothbrushing, flossing, and visiting the dentist. The second video discusses the correct kind of toothbrush to use, how often to replace toothbrushes, and brushing the tongue as well as the teeth. The third discusses the importance of eating fruits and vegetables, brushing the teeth after eating sugary foods, and drinking water.

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• Program Website

Keywords: Consumer education materials, Nutrition, Oral health, Oral hygiene, Prevention, Videos, Young children

Annotation: This animated video presents an example of how to use motivational interviewing techniques. It depicts a conversation between a health professional and a parent about stopping the routine of giving a child a bottle at bedtime. The conversation is structured around Brief Action Planning, a systematic approach to patient-centered goal setting, and is guided by active listening, with the objective of identifying a specific, patient-directed goal. The video is available in Chinese, English, and Spanish.

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Keywords: Infant health, Interviews, Non English language materials, Oral health, Prevention, Spanish language materials, Videos, Young children

Annotation: This series of videos provides information on how to keep the teeth and mouth healthy, what happens during a dental visit, and how to navigate teledentistry visits. Topics include how to take photos of a child’s teeth, how to apply fluoride varnish at home, how to brush teeth, what to do when a child has a loose tooth, fluoride varnish, tooth extraction, and fillings. The videos are available in Chinese, English, and Spanish.

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Keywords: Fluoride, Non English language materials, Oral health, Spanish language materials, Teledentistry, Videos

Annotation: This video series highlights motivational interviewing skills and techniques that health professionals can use to encourage patients to take care of their oral health. Videos discuss using open- and close-ended questions and the ask-tell-ask method with patients, engaging patients in agenda and goal setting, using questions and reflections while discussing patient values, and following up with patients.

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Keywords: Communication, Followup, Goals, Health literacy, Oral health, Values, Videos

Annotation: This video provides information about oral health during pregnancy and recommendations for integrating oral health care into primary care. It discusses the Health Resources and Services Administration’s oral health clinical competencies for primary care health professionals. An example of how these competencies can be part of a prenatal visit shows a health professional talking to a pregnant women about oral health and looking into her mouth for white spots and swollen gums; providing a referral to a dentist; and discussing the safety of receiving oral health care during pregnancy.

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• Program Website (code Oralhealth)

Keywords: Care coordination, Oral health, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Prevention, Service integration, Videos

Annotation: This animated video for children depicts a girl who joins a team of superheros with a mission to fight against tooth decay. The video presents tooth decay as a villain who promotes consuming sugary foods and drinks, while the superheros try to conquer him. It explains how tooth decay develops and discusses how eating sugary foods creates plaque, which in turn can lead to decay. It talks about how often teeth should be brushed and flossed, how much fluoridated toothpaste to use, and the importance of avoiding sugary foods and drinks.

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Keywords: Consumer education materials, Dental caries, Fluoride, Nutrition, Oral health, Oral hygiene, Prevention, School-age children, Videos

Annotation: This toolkit provides oral health resources that health professionals can share with pregnant women and new mothers. The print resources, which include the complete toolkit, brochures, posters, and infographics, are available in Arabic, Cambodian, English, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Taiwanese. Videos are available in English and in Spanish. The resources offer information about where to obtain oral health care by state and about how to care for gums and teeth during pregnancy and infancy.

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Keywords: Asian language materials, Brochures, Consumer education materials, Infants, Medicaid, Non English language materials, Oral health, Posters, Pregnant women, Spanish language materials, Videos

Annotation: This webinar reviews new clinical content in the Bright Futures Guidelines and the associated Periodicity Schedule, and discusses how to use evidence to decide on content for your practice's health supervision visits and how to identify strategies, tools, and resources to maximize efficiency for health promotion and preventive services.

• Webinar Only
• Bright Futures 4th Edition Webinars And Slide Decks

Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescent health, Anticipatory guidance, Child development, Child health, Communities, Disease prevention, Emotional development, Evidence based medicine, Families, Guidelines, Health promotion, Health screening, Health supervision, Infant development, Infant health, Injury prevention, Mental health, Nutrition, Oral health, Pediatric care, Perinatal health, Physical activity, Preventive health services, Protective factors, Psychosocial development, Safety, Sexual health, Standards, Videos, Weight management

Annotation: This video shows a conversation between a new mother and her friend. Topics include the importance of not cleaning an infant’s pacifier with saliva, not putting a child to sleep with a bottle, and not giving infants juice. The video provides a dentist’s perspective on why it is important for infants to visit the dentist. It shows the dentist examining an infant while explaining each step of the process. Tips on how to check an infant’s mouth for tooth decay and how to clean an infant’s gums and teeth are provided. The video is available in English and in Spanish. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

• English
• Spanish

Keywords: Consumer education materials, Oral health, Oral health care, Oral hygiene, Prevention, Spanish language materials, Videos

Annotation: This animated video for pregnant women provides information on oral health issues, including periodontal disease and tooth decay, that may occur during pregnancy. It explains that if a woman has tooth decay when a baby is born, she may pass bacteria from her own mouth to her infant’s, increasing the likelihood that the infant will develop tooth decay. It also emphasizes the importance of scheduling an oral health visit while pregnant rather than waiting until after delivery The video is available in English and in Spanish. The video was produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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Keywords: Consumer education materials, Infant health, Oral health, Pregnant women, Dental caries, Spanish language materials, Videos

Annotation: This video for parents explains why primary teeth are important for children. Tips for soothing infants who are teething, promoting healthy primary teeth, and taking infants and young children to the dentist are provided. The video demonstrates how to brush an infant’s or child’s teeth and the appropriate amount of fluoride toothpaste. Also discussed are problems in the mouth that need immediate attention from a dentist. In addition, the video explains what kind of foods and drinks are best for infants’ and children’s oral health and overall health.

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Keywords: Consumer education materials, Nutrition, Oral health, Oral health care, Oral hygiene, Spanish language materials, Teething, Videos

Annotation: This video provides Head Start and child care staff with information about how children can brush their teeth as a group at the table. It shows a Head Start teacher modeling brushing at the table, while the children also brush with her guidance. Instructions for how to prepare the area, clean up after brushing, and safely store toothbrushes are included. The video also shows a dentist explaining how toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste can help prevent tooth decay. Captions written in Spanish are included.

• English
• Spanish

Keywords: , Child care, Head Start, Oral health, Oral health care, Prevention, Spanish language materials, Videos, Young children