A Dentist in your Pocket
This page shows how digital technology could improve access to practical oral-health information and support — free at the point of contact.
Using nothing more than a smartphone, people can access reliable dental support, practical advice and short, targeted videos to help them understand and manage common dental problems.
ORA — your Dental Assistant
Our AI assistants combine Teeth4life videos with trusted professional guidance and evidence-based resources. Choose the assistant most relevant to your question for practical oral-health information.
They are available in around 50 languages, making the information easier to access for more people.
Can’t find what you need?
Try the Video Hive further down this page, with hundreds of oral-health videos covering a wide range of subjects.
The more specific your question, the more relevant the answer is likely to be.
Getting the best answers
For a clear and useful response, try asking:
Prevention
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Care Home
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Treatments
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Children
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Pain
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Future DHS
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262 selected videos for the public, carers and dental professionals — watch, share and, where permitted, download for education.
Dental Emergency Chatbots
During the COVID pandemic, access to dentists became extremely limited and remote triage became much more important.
Dental emergency advice itself has changed relatively little over the years. What has changed dramatically is the technology available to deliver that advice.
This creates an opportunity for a modern Dental Health Service to provide digital triage and advice through a website or personalised app, available whenever people need it.
A personalised Dental Health Service
The vision is to develop a Dental Health Service app that supports prevention, improves access to reliable advice and allows people to build a useful personal oral-health record.
Routine information such as periodontal screening scores and other risk factors could help people monitor their oral health over time. The same platform could also allow members of the dental team to promote their own preventive services and advice.
With the right support, a new DHS app could connect prevention, monitoring, professional guidance and the wider wellbeing of the public.
Collaboration on the War on Sugar, UPFs & UPDs
Oral health should be part of an integrated health service. Tooth decay, obesity, diabetes and other diet-related conditions share important risk factors, particularly our exposure to sugar and highly processed foods.
Digital tools can help people make more informed choices and could eventually provide personalised preventive support — with the individual's consent.
The reward could be better health and less treatment. Although most testing still appears to show people prefer chocolate. 🤨
Two useful examples are Yuka and Food Scanner.
Want to help?
Real progress happens when we work together. As a united dental team, we can build an accessible, prevention-first service that provides useful support to the public and helps connect people with the dental professionals who provide it.
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262 selected videos for the public, carers and dental professionals — watch, share and, where permitted, download for education.
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