Patient Education Materials

To floss or not to floss?

Yes! It helps to attain and maintain your oral health.

Brush Up On Your Oral Health Facts

Use these pieces to learn about the connection between oral and overall health.

Poster

Brochure
(currently unavailable) 

Gum Chewing

It may be the world's oldest candy. Go ahead and have a piece of (sugarless) chewing gum – and make your dentist happy! (Excerpt from YOH Magazine)

Common Dental Procedures

• This fact sheet covers some of the common procedures that can be performed by your dentist.

Infection Control

• This fact sheet is intended to answer some frequently asked questions and to provide you with the latest information on what are known as infection control techniques.

Waiving the Dental Plan Co-Payment 

• This fact sheet will provide some information to help you understand how one of the most common features – co-payment or co-insurance – works.

Gum Disease (Periodontal Disease)

• Periodontal disease is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults. Why? Find out with this informative fact sheet.

Burning Mouth Syndrome

• What is Burning Mouth Syndrome? And who does it affect? (Excerpt from YOH.ca Magazine magazine)

Dry Mouth (Xerostomia)

• If your mouth often feels dry and uncomfortable, you may have xerostomia. That's the clinical term for dry mouth — and it occurs when the amount of saliva in your mouth dries up. (Excerpt from YOH.ca Magazine magazine)

Tooth Sensitivity

• Tooth sensitivity is more than an inconvenience, it's a pain – and your dentist needs to know about it. (Excerpt from YOH.ca Magazine magazine)

Oral Piercings 

• An oral piercing might be a must-have for your teen, but do you know how safe it is? (Excerpt from YOH.ca Magazine magazine)

Oral Cancer isn't this easy to spot. 

Undestand oral cancer – what is it, how is it detected, how it can be prevented – as well as risk factors and symptoms.

Poster Brochure

• A fact sheet for patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer and their families. Reprinted with permission.

• A routine part of an oral examination should be inspection not only of the teeth and gums but also of the soft tissues in and around the mouth. Dentists look for abnormal changes that are loosely called "lesions." Reprinted with permission of The American Academy of Oral Medicine.

Oral Mucositis

• This fact sheet looks at painful mouth sores, known as oral mucositis, which may develop as a result of cancer treatment.

Your Dentist Sees More Than Just Your Teeth (Diabetes) 

• This brochure provides an overview of the relationship between diabetes and oral health - including the most common oral health problems associated with diabetes.

 Poster

Diabetes and Oral Health

• This fact sheet explores the ways diabetes and your oral health can affect each other.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

• What is sleep apnea and why are so many people losing sleep over it? (Excerpt from Your Oral Health.ca magazine)

Quitting tobacco: Let’s think positive 

• The time theme of the poster (below) is replicated in the brochure, along with a few frequently asked questions.

• This poster conveys a positive, results-oriented message about quitting tobacco.

• The oral changes from tobacco use range from harmless soft tissue changes to a life-threatening oral cancer. Some of the more common of these are discussed in this fact sheet. Reprinted with permission from the American Academy of Oral Medicine.

• This fact sheet lists some common questions and concerns about quitting tobacco. Reprinted with permission from the American Academy of Oral Medicine.

• This fact sheet offers a brief discussion of some of the many links between smoking and systemic diseases.

Your Children's Teeth

• A healthy mouth is important to a child's overall health. These resources help parents and caregivers learn how to keep a child's smile healthy.

 Brochure 

Healthy School Lunch

• What to pack in a healthy school lunch – that your kids might actually eat! (Excerpt from YOH.ca Magazine magazine)

Kids' Zone

• Don't forget our interactive dental playground with puzzles, colouring pages and videos to help encourage good oral-health habits in your children. Click on the cartoon tooth and go there now!

• This brochure provides
  an overview of dental care
  for older adults. 

• This brochure provides
  tips for seniors and caregivers
  caring for natural teeth.

• This brochure provides
  tips for seniors and caregivers
  caring for dentures.

• This tip sheet is intended as a tool to help caregivers support good oral health.

• Ensure the patient with Alzheimer's disease knows how to conduct their routine dental care – dental disease should not compound the problems encountered with this disease. 
  
  (Brochure is currently being updated and is temporarily unavailable)

• A joint message from the ODA and other organizations, this brochure helps you understand the causes, prevention and treatment of osteonecrosis of the jaw.

Bisphosphonate Therapy and the Oral Cavity

• This fact sheet, reprinted with permission of The American Academy of Oral Medicine, looks at bisphosphonates and their possible side effects on oral health. 

Mouth Problems + HIV 

• This fact sheet is for people who have mouth (oral) problems related to HIV infection. It explains the most common oral problems linked to HIV and shows what they look like. It also describes where in the mouth they occur and how they are treated. Reprinted with permission by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.

Herpes Simplex Virus Infection (Cold Sores and Fever Blisters)

• Fact sheet reprinted with permission of The American Academy of Oral Medicine.