A call for the inclusion of a course on basic oral healthcare practice into the Nigerian nursing and midwifery education curriculum

According to the American Dental Association, oral health can be defined as ‘a functional, structural, aesthetic, physiologic and psychosocial state of well-being and is essential to an individual’s general health and quality of life.’1 Oral health is a vital component of general health and wellbeing;2 due to the vitality of oral health to life, the World Health Organization declared oral healthcare as one of the basic components of primary healthcare package.3 Hence, being a basic component of healthcare package, all clinicians, including nurses and midwives, should be able to provide some basic non-invasive oral healthcare services. 2. AIm