There is a lot of clever branding on oral health products that can make you think you need the £25 toothpaste or the £500 toothbrush. In reality, whilst sometimes it's great to splurge on a luxury product, the basics can do just fine for most people.

We break down the key things to ensure your oral health products have, so when you look at the no-frills options you know you're still getting a good quality product.

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Gillian Howie, Consultant in Special Care Dentistry for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), joins us to talk about the challenges of accessing dental care when you have a disability, as well as some of the joys she experiences as a special care dentist.

Thank you to Oral B for making this conversation happen.

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40% of adults in the UK don’t go to the dentist regularly because it’s too expensive.

That’s just not acceptable. We need to work on improving the NHS contract and making it fairer for everyone.

This is the final episode in our 10 part miniseries on our oral health manifesto. Read our full oral health manifesto here: https://www.dentalhealth.org/manifesto2024

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