Resources

Information is empowering. Whether you need tips for making homecare for your loved one better, advocacy tools to champion our cause, or tools to increase accessibility for your healthcare service, our growing list of resources are completely free to download and share.

If you’d like to contribute a resource for us to share here, please email us at info@paoh.org.

Parents and Caregivers

Download the All Smiles Shine App (Apple App Store or Google Play) a resource for helping children with disabilities learn about oral health and dental visits.

Subscribe to Helen: The Journal of Human Exceptionality — the official Journal of PAOH where people with disabilities, parents and clinicians intersect for inclusive health. It features helpful articles, evidence-based best practices, advice to navigate the ability lifestyle, tools for advocacy & more.

Here are some additional resources for parents and caregivers of people with disabilities:

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Toothbrushing Tips for Your Child with a Disability (Spanish)
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Toothbrushing Tips for Your Child with a Disability
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Toothbrushing Positions for Your Child with a Disability (Spanish)
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Toothbrushing Positions for Your Child with a Disability
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Oral Health Services for Children and Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs
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Helpful Links

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We do not make any representation or warranty regarding the accuracy or reliability of the content on third party websites. Any action you take based upon the information on this website is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any losses or damages in connection with the use of our website.

Professionals

All Smiles Shine: Get Involved!

Download the All Smiles Shine badge and include it on your practice website and social platforms. This identifies your practice as providing oral care to people with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities.

Here are some resources for Professionals who support people with disabilities:

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All Smiles Shine Poster
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Oral Health Infographic
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Oral Health Dental Student Flyer
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Poster: Oral Health and the Body
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Dental Office Pre-Visit Questionnaire for Parents
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Dental Office Pre-Visit Questionnaire for Adult Patients
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Training

Delta Dental Foundation is funding the creation of an enduring series of free, online courses offered through the Penn Dental Medicine Office of Continuing Education, an ADA CERP provider, aimed at building awareness of the barriers to equitable oral health for individuals with disabilities and developing competency among clinicians to provide care to this vulnerable population. The series is open to all U.S. licensed dentists and their support personnel for a period of three years at no charge.

Dentists completing 18 or more of the courses within a three-year period will receive a certificate of completion from Penn Dental Medicine as a Disabilities Dentistry Clinician Expert. 

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