Brush up on your oral health

With National Smile Month (May 20 – June 20) on the horizon, it might be time to bring your own toothy grin up to the white mark

The UK’s biggest annual campaign to get our smile sparkling has just announced its supporters and is hoping to get everyone brushing away.

The British Dental Health Foundation is committed to improving the nation’s oral health when currently a third of children starting school are estimated to have tooth decay, while three in 10 adults face regular dental pain and over four-fifths of people have at least one filling.

Not only that, one in four adults don’t even brush their teeth twice a day and the same number haven’t visited a dentist in the last two years.

The British Dental Health Foundation’s director of campaigns and fundraising, Simon Howell, said: “National Smile Month is a charitable campaign that needs the support of a wide range of supporters and sponsors to help improve the nation’s oral health.

“This year, we have received incredible interest in National Smile Month and we would like to thank all of our sponsors for their educational grants and generous charitable support. Their involvement means millions of people in the UK will be encouraged to improve their oral health and the many benefits this brings.”

Wrigley’s Extra, Oral-B, Listerine, Steradent, Bupa, Denplan, Dencover, Lloyds Pharmacy, Aldi, Wilkinson and SleepRight are all backing National Smile Month.

Find out more about oral health at www.smilemonth.org.