HABIT is a collection of resources and training that supports Health Visitors, and their wider team, to have effective oral health conversations with parents of young children. We aim to enable parents to establish and implement key oral health habits in infancy; thereby improving children's oral health. Initially funded by the Medical Research Council, HABIT was co-designed with parents and Health Visitors across Bradford.

The intervention is underpinned by robust behaviour change theory (including systematic reviews, qualitative interviews, intervention mapping and community engagement).

We have shown that HABIT is acceptable to parents, feasible to be delivered by Health Visitors and leads to the adoption of key oral health habits by parents of infants.