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Collective Purchasing To Benefit Communities

Posted 26 May 2009 - 2:29pm by newsdesk

The country’s 21 District Health Boards have combined their purchases to provide better oral health services for communities and to avoid duplication of efforts and resources.

Free toothbrushes highlight Oral Health Week

Posted 11 May 2009 - 12:47pm by newsdesk

Convergence Communications Ltd (Auckland)

There’ll be no excuses for patients at Starship Children’s Hospital not to brush their teeth this week. Macleans is giving away 10,000 tooth brushes and 10,000 tubes of fluoridated toothpaste to help promote oral health at Starship in the first 2 weeks of May.

Government Changes in Health Priorities Short Sighted

Posted 8 May 2009 - 3:17pm by newsdesk

New Zealand Nurses Organisation (National Office)

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is calling on the government to rethink its decision to cut some key areas in health care from district health boards’ priorities. Mental health, obesity action and oral health – all areas where New Zealand is lagging well behind internationally - are no longer among DHBs’ priorities.

Health board to invest millions in kids teeth

Posted 19 May 2009 - 1:56pm by newsdesk

Waikato District Health Board

Waikato District Health Board (DHB) will spend $9.75 million on Waikato children's smiles over the next year with new on-site school dental facilities and additional mobile clinics.

Lifting the lip a key to healthy smiles

Posted 4 May 2009 - 1:41pm by office

Starship Foundation

New Zealand parents are being urged to take a look into their children’s mouths as an important step towards better oral health.

Local healthcare initiative eats into Canterbury children’s cavities

Posted 31 March 2009 - 11:36am by office

Pegasus Health

A pioneering dental care programme has seen Canterbury buck the trend of soaring national rates of cavities in children.

Lumino Urges Kiwis To Think About Their Oral Health

Posted 27 July 2009 - 10:17am by newsdesk

Lumino The Dentists

New Zealanders are storing up trouble by pushing concerns about their oral health to the back of their minds according to the country's only national provider, Lumino The Dentists. The company's latest initiative to get people to think about their dental care is the chance to win five nights in Fiji with return airfares for two, staying at the Sofitel Resort and Spa.

More hoodwinking over Far North Fluoridation?

Posted 14 May 2009 - 10:02am by newsdesk

Fluoride Action Network NZ (FANNZ)

Investigations show that the latest support for fluoridation in the Far North “is just smoke and mirrors” according to Mark Atkin, of Fluoridation-Free NZ Coalition partner, Fluoride Action Network. The New Zealand School & Community Oral Health Services Society recently urged the Far North District Council (FNDC) to continue fluoridation. But its president is no other than Dr Neil Croucher, one of the Northland DHB researchers responsible for the Far North trial.

Research shows link between maternal and child oral health

Posted 14 August 2009 - 9:55am by newsdesk

Ministry of Health

Tooth decay remains a significant problem for New Zealand children, and recent research shows there is evidence of a link between poor maternal oral health and early childhood dental decay.

Survey looks into oral health of New Zealanders

Posted 13 March 2009 - 12:00am by superadmin

Ministry of Health

About 2000 adults and 1000 children are expected to take part in the 2009 New Zealand Oral Health Survey that is being conducted from March to November 2009.

Survey looks into oral health of New Zealanders

Posted 2 March 2009 - 12:00am by superadmin

Ministry of Health

About 2000 adults and 1000 children are expected to take part in the 2009 New Zealand Oral Health Survey that is being conducted from March to November 2009.