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The Business of Dentistry

(5145) Improving Oral Health Literacy: Dental Professionals Educating Kids through Lessons in a Lunch Box

Thursday, October 5, 2023
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM ET
Location: S330A
CE: 1
Audience: D, S, T, G
Disclosure(s):
Winifred J. Booker, DDS: Brushtime Enterprises: Officer or Board Member (Ongoing)
This CE lecture introduces unique strategies to address health literacy utilizing a lunch box designed with stimulating educational content focusing on wellbeing behaviors. It has been developed to offer dental health professionals an innovative way to improve oral health literacy by going directly into second and third grade classrooms.

The core purpose of this training lecture is to thoroughly educate dental professionals about the Lessons in a Lunch Box program by teaching them the stepwise approach to efficiently present these materials to their elementary school audiences. The “dentally

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the importance of oral health literacy
  • Appreciate unique methods to help achieve oral health literacy in children
  • Practice self-efficacy to improve oral health literacy via an educational system program.