Dental health for Supported Residential Services residents

Oral health is important for overall health, so:

Failure to take care of teeth leads to health problems including:

Schedule 9 of the SRS Health and Wellbeing StandardsExternal Link outlines that proprietors need to ensure residents have access to an appropriate range of toiletries.

The department expects that proprietors ensure residents have access to toothbrushes and toothpaste.

The pension-level Supported Residential Services (SRS) oral health promotion initiative aims to improve the oral health of assisted pension-level SRS residents.

It operates in the pension-level SRS 's listed below:

The department funds a number of agencies to deliver the program.

The dental hygienist/dental assistant can:

Service providers are available across Victoria, these areas and providers are listed below:

Contact the service provider in your area and ask to speak to the SRS oral health program coordinator to arrange for a service to visit your SRS.

SRS residents who are healthcare or pensioner concession cardholders are eligible for public dental care and receive priority access to those services.

People who have priority access to dental care are offered the next available appointment for general care and are not placed on a waiting list.

For further information about eligibility and access visit the Access to public dental care services page.

Public dental services are provided through the Royal Dental Hospital Melbourne in addition to integrated and registered community health services across Victoria.

For contact details for these agencies visit the Dental Health Services VictoriaExternal Link website.

Reviewed 10 July 2023

Dental health team Department of Health