Health foods and healthy habits for a healthy mouth!

The "Oral Health for Kidney Health" Patient Education Kit is live now in the Library. This kit helps dialysis patients see how their nutrition and oral hygiene habits can affect their overall well-being and kidney health.

Our handout "Say Cheese"covers topics like:

  • Eating fruits and veggies to decrease inflammation
  • Habits that harm tooth enamel and gums
  • Symptoms that warrant a visit to the dentist
  • Healthy food to add if chewing hurts

The handout pairs with the "Say Cheese" bulletin board, which emphasizes these topics and also the dangers of chewing ice, and what patients can do instead. And the wordsearch game in this kit helps reinforce the principles of good oral health covered in both the handout and bulletin board.

Keep scrolling to see the BONUS resources we've included in this month's Library Kit!

Patient Education Kit: 3 dialysis clinic resources to teach habits of oral health

Each patient education kit includes: handout, bulletin board and game. Designed specifically for dialysis clinics, these kits teach the most pertinent topics of renal nutrition for dialysis patients. Many private practice renal dietitians find them useful for their own patients.

Handouts from KNI are always simple , beautiful and interactive. We've added QR video codes to help patients remember nutrition principles in the handouts after they've left your dialysis clinic. And now we're adding Spanish language handouts with Spanish-language videos!

KNI bulletin boards are guaranteed to take less than 20 minutes from download to done! Complete instructions and all needed graphics are included in the downloaded PDF.

BONUS Resources for dietitians to help patient's improve oral health

We've gone all out for this month's theme of "Oral Health for Kidney Health". In addition to our usual patient education kit, we've also included two amazing resources for dialysis dietitians: a Renal Dietitian's Guide to Assessing Oral Health and a Dialysis Clinic Staff Training presentation for Oral Health.

The Renal Dietitian's Guide to Oral Health shows you when to suspect oral health problems in your dialysis patients. It also guides you step-by-step on how to help find the right resources to help your patients improve their oral health, decrease overall inflammation and help them feel better!

The Dialysis Clinic Staff Training for Oral Health presents an overview of this common problem in the dialysis patient population. When the entire clinic staff knows how prevalent poor oral health is among ESRD patients, everyone can be on the look-out for it and help patients improve their health. This is a downloadable PDF with 15 slides to present at as a staff in-service.

To get this "Oral Health for Kidney Health" Patient Education Kit + BONUS Resources, and all of the other amazing KNI resources for nephrology professionals, join the Renal Education Library TODAY!

Renal dietitian's guide to assessing oral health and a dialysis clinic staff training template about oral health.