111 Oral Health Interventions in Patients with a Mental Health Disorder can influence oral health in patients with mental health disorders. When caring for patients diagnosed with a mental health disorder, it is essential that mental health professionals consider oral health care as an essential part of their daily tasks and provide necessary nursing support. Mental health nurses should be more aware of oral health and oral health risk and should provide long-term interventions in order to improve oral health. Further research into the current competences of nurses to support and motivate patients with a mental health disorder and to be able to apply oral health interventions is conditional. To develop and implement more solutions that are suitable in view of future research, it seems important to develop an integrated toolkit with interventions, in which all these components are given a place, as well as interventions for preventive care. Oral health programmes should be provided tailored to the needs of the patient. 4
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