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If you work in healthcare, KOHC is an excellent resource with a vast experience with free advice on their website and details of their training courses
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This FREE e-learning site is on looking after your clients, friends, or relations mouth. You can get a certificate for your work, showing you have improved your knowledge base, which is a clear benefit to both of you. Click on the link for the link, and register yourself for this Oral health site, and any others that may be of benefit.
No, you haven't, and you are never too old to learn new tricks. What device are you using now, and who helped you?
Find a friend, or better a grandchild, who can help you get online via your computer, or even easier a "tablet"- the newer big ones that are too big to swallow! Get them to "bookmark" this page as a "favourite", and show you how to get back to this "website" after you have "migrated" away from this "page". It's English, just not quite plain English.
Find a friend, or better a grandchild, who can help you get online via your computer, or even easier a "tablet"- the newer big ones that are too big to swallow! Get them to "bookmark" this page as a "favourite", and show you how to get back to this "website" after you have "migrated" away from this "page". It's English, just not quite plain English.
These newer portable electronic devices can be used in a bathroom.
Look at the adult section on looking after your teeth; it shows how you can view a video demonstration on cleaning your teeth, or mirroring, which you can do in the bathroom.
Mirroring can be used with the person you care for. You lay out the toothbrush and paste, and allow them to copy you, so your technique needs to be good!
Look at the adult section on looking after your teeth; it shows how you can view a video demonstration on cleaning your teeth, or mirroring, which you can do in the bathroom.
Mirroring can be used with the person you care for. You lay out the toothbrush and paste, and allow them to copy you, so your technique needs to be good!
Dentures- this happy chap has lost them!
It's almost impossible to make a new set of dentures with a later stage dementia patient.
Instead here are some tips.
Ask your dentist to make a copy set of dentures with their names added as a spare.
Ask a dentist or denture lab, technician, to add a name to the current set.
If partial dentures, as above, and also take a photo of the denture and give a photograph copy to the care home with their name.
It's possible to add a name or number ID to the smooth denture surface with a pen and varnish over the ID with nail varnish. It will wear off with time and need repeating.
Cleaning dentures are covered in the videos.
Oct 2018.The technology is now available to scan the dentures, and keep a file. If the dentures are lost a replica can be made on the latest milling machine, and soon by 3D printing. All it needs is a portable TRIOS and email the file for manufacture on a PM7. A lot easier and quicker and more successful for the elderly.
It's almost impossible to make a new set of dentures with a later stage dementia patient.
Instead here are some tips.
Ask your dentist to make a copy set of dentures with their names added as a spare.
Ask a dentist or denture lab, technician, to add a name to the current set.
If partial dentures, as above, and also take a photo of the denture and give a photograph copy to the care home with their name.
It's possible to add a name or number ID to the smooth denture surface with a pen and varnish over the ID with nail varnish. It will wear off with time and need repeating.
Cleaning dentures are covered in the videos.
Oct 2018.The technology is now available to scan the dentures, and keep a file. If the dentures are lost a replica can be made on the latest milling machine, and soon by 3D printing. All it needs is a portable TRIOS and email the file for manufacture on a PM7. A lot easier and quicker and more successful for the elderly.
This is an excellent further resource.
This is a link to some common problems in the mouth, with examples and advice.
Click on the picture.
This is a link to some common problems in the mouth, with examples and advice.
Click on the picture.