Dental Tool Kit

Oral healthcare is critical to overall good health. Unfortunately, though, oral hygiene and dental visits can be difficult for people with autism. The solution: parents/caregivers need to make oral health a priority from birth and dentists need to better understand their autistic patient's needs. This guide addresses both. 

This tool kit includes:

• Tips for caregivers to work on oral health at home and prepare for visits to the dentist. Includes information on selecting the right tooth brush, flossing tools and schedule aids to help keep autistic children and adolescents on track.
• Autistic perspective with tips for autistic people, parents and dental professionals to make dental visits more comfortable.
• Tried-and-tested tips from parents of autistic children on everything from selecting a tooth brush to scheduling dental appointments based on what an autistic loved one's preferences.
• Information for dental professions to better understand autism, the autistic patient, and how to better accommodate autistic patients.
• Visual schedule for parents to use with their autistic loved one to help them better understand the steps of a routine dental exam.
• Standard dental form for parents to fill out ahead of a first visit with a dentist to help them better understand their loved one.

Autism Speaks would like to thank Northeast Delta Dental Foundation for their generous contribution to fund the revision of this tool kit, first released in the 2010.

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