16 September 2025
BSPD welcomes supervised toothbrushing roll-out
The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD), the national society dedicated to improving the oral health of children from birth to 16, welcomes today’s news of the good progress being made to bring-to-life the supervised toothbrushing pledge made in March 2025. The Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) initiative to fund a targeted supervised toothbrushing scheme for three, four and five year olds in England giving children in early years settings toothbrushing support, along with toothbrushes and toothpastes to take home, is now in-action, and the results so far are significant.
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