Oral and dental health

Guidance and services

• The role of the Community Dental Service (WHC/2022/022)
• NHS dental services
• Dental services: quality and safety assurance
• Designed to Smile: improving children’s dental health
• Role and provision of dental public health in Wales (WHC/2021/032)
• Role and provision of oral surgery in Wales (WHC/2021/033)
• Dental management of patients during COVID-19 recovery
• Community dental service (WHC/2019/021)
• Dental care and treatment for very young children
• Ionising radiation in dentistry
• Claim for help with health costs (HC1W)
• Claim a refund of NHS dental charges: form HC5W (D)
• Orthodontics in primary care: guidance
• NHS dentistry: clinical audit, peer review and quality improvement (WHC/2018/044)
• Supporting quality and safety for dental registrants (WHC/2018/019)
• Service standards for conscious sedation in a dental care setting (WHC/2018/009)
• Conscious sedation: guidance for health boards and dental health professionals
• Designed to Smile child oral health improvement programme (WHC/2017/23)
• Community dental services: terms and conditions of service (WHC/2017/002)
• The Private Dentistry (Wales) Regulations 2017: guidance
• Community dental service (WHC/2016/005)
• Dental foundation training (WHC/2016/016)
• Improving oral health for older people living in care homes (WHC/2015/001)
• Improving access to specialist primary care dental services (WHC/2015/002)
• Oral surgery and medicine services (WHC/2015/041)
• Designed to Smile in practice: e-learning resource
• NHS dental charges and exemptions
• Check what help you could get to pay for NHS costs

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Dental regulations
  Collection
• Oral health and dental services: our plan
  Policy and strategy
• Oral health improvement and dental services
  Policy and strategy
• Dental contract reform programme
  Policy and strategy
• Designed to Smile monitoring report: September 2017 to July 2018
  Report
• Child dental general anaesthetics annual reports
  Collection
• Special care dentistry
  Policy and strategy
• Plans to phase down the use of dental amalgam
  Policy and strategy
• Designed to smile monitoring report: September 2016 to July 2017
  Report
• Oral health for older people in care homes: report 2019 to 2020
  Report