The Dental Health Educator

This is a person who instructs in the prevention of dental disease and who may also be permitted to apply preventive agents intraorally. In a few countries, the duties of some dental surgery assistants have been extended to allow them to carry out certain preventive procedures. In Sweden, two additional weeks of training are given, after which ancillaries are allowed to conduct fluoride mouthrinsing programmes to groups of schoolchildren. They are, however, not allowed to undertake any intraoral procedures.