Two Northern Tasmanian primary schools are among the first to benefit from a new teacher resource developed by the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
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Available nationally through the RFDS education website, the online tool is designed around health and physical education in schools and is suitable for students in kindergarten to grade 6.
Riverside Primary School and Deloraine's Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School have already begun working with the program.
It also includes a series of short videos filmed in Launceston and featuring RFDS dentist Lorika Strickland, dental assistant Taneesha Torlach, Riverside Primary School grade 6 student Grayson Wade and pre-schooler Ella McLean.
Animated characters Dentist Dan and Dentist Donna guide teachers and students through the Australian curriculum content, with learning activities presented using video, audio, interactive work sheets, quizzes, games and a 360 degree photo of a dental surgery with hotspot links.
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RFDS Tasmania chief executive John Kirwan said along with supporting aero-medical services and providing physical and mental health care to rural and remote communities, the RFDS mobile dental service was increasingly in demand.
"Our core business is improving the health outcomes of all Australians so we are using education as a tool in prevention," he said.
"In some cases lifestyle health problems in areas such as oral health, diet and exercise are due to a lack of knowledge and practice, these resources are designed to improve oral health outcomes and set these students up for life.
"We can not only help teachers to education children but we can also use education to help pass on health messaging to adults through the children."
The RFDS mobile dental service administered more than 15,000 treatments to about 1400 patients in the last financial year.
Content from the online resources include learning about teeth and how to keep them healthy; what a healthy diet looks like; interpreting and preparing health messaging; and educating others.
Poor dental health remains the most common reason for preventable hospitalisations in Tasmania.