NICE Public Health Guidance 55: Oral Health: local authorities and partners recommends that:
1) service specifications include the requirement for frontline health and social care staff to receive training in promoting oral health.
2) training for frontline health and social care staff is regularly commissioned.
3) frontline health and social care staff understand the links between health inequalities and oral health and the needs of groups at high risk of poor oral health.
4) frontline health and social care staff can advise carers on how to protect and improve the oral health and hygiene of those they care for.
Oral health training of health and social care students and staff are core elements of the Designed to Smile and Gwên Am Byth national oral health improvement programmes (delivered by NHS Wales Community Dental Services).