Celebrate Oral Health Month with Prevention for Life

Every June, Oral Health Month shines a spotlight on the importance of maintaining healthy teeth and gums. As a dental professional, you play an important role in helping your patients achieve optimal oral health. This month offers an opportunity to raise awareness, promote education, and re-energize yourself with tools that enhance patient outcomes. That’s where our Prevention for Life^® Program comes in.

What Is the Prevention for Life Program?

Developed by our team of dental specialists, the Prevention for Life Program is a comprehensive preventive care initiative designed to help dental teams focus on long-term oral health through personalized, proactive preventive care. It’s more than just a tagline — it’s a philosophy centered on delivering the highest standard of care.

Prevention for Life has been around for close to a decade but to ensure you have access to the latest tools and resources, the program has just relaunched with a BRAND NEW website. We can’t wait for you to check it out!

Why Prevention Matters During Oral Health Month

Oral Health Month isn’t just a celebration — it’s a call to action. For dental professionals, it’s the perfect time to strengthen patient relationships, emphasize preventive care, and make lasting health impacts. The Prevention for Life Program provides the structure and resources to do just that.

Here’s how Prevention for Life benefits you:

1. Empowers Great Preventive Care

The program emphasizes the importance of regular recare appointments and preventive treatments, such as fluoride varnish and sealants. These services are often underutilized, especially for adult patients, but critical to reducing dental disease. Prevention for Life provides a framework that helps you guide patients toward achieving their oral health goals. It provides education that benefits both you and the patient.

2. Streamlines Communication  

With easy-to-follow risk assessment forms, the program makes it simple for dental teams to explain the “why” behind preventive procedures. Whether you’re talking to a concerned parent or a skeptical adult patient, clear, concise messaging is key. The evidence-based risk assessment forms help you show your patients what puts their oral health at risk. The conversations sparked by risk assessment evaluations help build trust and strengthen your relationship with your patients.

3. Supports Practice Growth

By focusing on prevention, dental practices can increase the number of routine visits and offer value-added services like sealants, fluoride varnish, and silver diamine fluoride. These services not only protect patient health but also boost revenue. You are able to generate consistent, predictable income while improving patient outcomes — a win-win for everyone.

4. Elevates Your Role as an Oral Health Advocate

During school and in the early career stages, it’s not difficult to stay motivated. You are just learning how to be a great clinician. You deal with new cases and sharpen your skills. Over  time, however, as you gain more experience, it’s easy to get lost in the monotony of our daily routine and lose perspective on the importance of your work. Prevention for Life gives you the chance to rediscover your purpose as an oral health advocate, not only during Oral Health Month but always!

5. Tried and True Preventive Products 

To help you deliver the best preventive care possible, we’ve developed many outstanding preventive care products, such as FluoroDose^® fluoride varnish, Champ^® pit & fissure sealant, and SilverSense SDF^® 38% silver diamine fluoride, to name a few. These award-winning products deliver a lot of value – not only through attractive pricing but also through unique features that make them stand out from the competition. Learn more about the full line of Centrix Preventive Products. 

A Month of Opportunity

Oral Health Month is a chance for dental professionals to reinforce the value of preventive care. With the tools, education, and structure provided by the Centrix Prevention for Life Program, practices can maximize their preventive prowess — and carry its impact well beyond June.

Whether you’re celebrating by hosting events, offering promotions, or simply having more meaningful conversations with patients, let the Prevention for Life Program be your guide to a healthier community and a thriving practice.