Prevention that actually works: turning advice into patient action
15 May 2026
Dental Hygienist & Therapist Symposium
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Learning Content
This session explores why preventive advice often fails and how to turn it into patient action. Using behaviour change principles, it provides practical, chairside strategies to improve adherence, simplify communication, and achieve measurable clinical outcomes.
Aims
To explore why preventive oral hygiene advice often fails to translate into patient behaviour and to address the communication and barriers behind non-compliance. The session aims to provide practical, evidence-informed strategies to improve patient understanding, build sustainable habits, and enhance long-term oral health outcomes in everyday clinical practice.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand why preventive oral hygiene advice often fails to change behaviour - Apply practical communication techniques to improve patient understanding and adherence - Recognise key barriers, including motivation and habits - Use simple chairside strategies to support long-term compliance and improve clinical outcomes.
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