Maternal and Child Health Nurses

Professional Learning

Online training: Baby teeth count too!
This course is a 2-hour self-paced eLearning module.

Workshop: Baby teeth count too!
This is a 1.5-hour in-person or virtual workshop.  Please email HFHS@dhsv.org.au to book in a workshop for your MCH team.

Professional resources

The little mouth manual: Oral health information for Maternal and Child Health Nurses
A guide to support MCH nurses in oral health promotion, screening, and prevention across the Key Age and Stage visits.

Little teeth book
A parent engagement tool to support oral health promotion with clients during their key age and stage visits

Oral health milestones and key messages
This is a quick guide of the oral health milestones you may see at Key Age and Stage visits and the oral health messages to communicate to families.  This resource is also available as a double-sided resource with QR codes to our resources for you to use in the key age and stage visits.

Tooth Tips: 6-12 Months
Covers nutrition, feeding and early toothbrushing guidance for babies. This resource is delivered to families at the 8-month KAS visit.

Tooth Tips: 1-6 Years
A new, streamlined resource that combines previously overlapping messages into a single, easy to use fact sheet. It is distributed at the 12-month KAS visit.

6 Tips to Help Kids Brush
A refreshed resource provided at the 18-month KAS visit. Designed with practical, everyday strategies, it helps establish oral health habits at home.

Contact the Healthy Families, Healthy Smiles team for more information