Today, the Oral Health Foundation continues to be an independent charity that aims to improve the oral health of the public by providing free and impartial dental advice, by running educational campaigns and by informing and influencing the public, profession and government on issues such as mouth cancer awareness and fluoridation.
We are proud that the values of our charity remain exactly the same as when we were first established more than 45 years' ago.
This is a short summary of how the Oral Health Foundation began, what led us to being formed and some of the challenges that we faced at that time.
Origins
On 15 May 1970, in the Café Royal, London, twelve leading members of the dental profession and industry met for the first time to discuss the birth of a new organisation. Led by two prominent and far-sighted members of the dental trade – John M Davis and Peter de Trey - the group gathered to debate a paper produced by the British Dental Trade Associatio...
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