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 behavioural 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 translate into patient behaviour
- Be able to apply practical communication techniques to improve understanding and adherence
- Recognise key barriers to behaviour change, including motivation, habit, and routine integration
- Be able to use simple chairside strategies to support long-term patient compliance and improve clinical outcomes
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