Goal: To encourage local children to begin looking after their teeth ata early age
Contact: www.downham.surestart.org
Sure Start Downham in Lewisham and King's College Hospital have workedtogether to improve children's dental health for three years.
This includes having an oral health promotion worker attached to theSure Start programme. More recently, the two organisations launched abig campaign to raise awareness of oral and dental health.
This got under way last month with representatives from bothorganisations visiting local schools. They were trying to spread themessage that looking after your teeth can be fun with the help of alarge green monster - the Downham Dinosaur - and some lively puppetshows.
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