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Reliable online and print consumer level information about dental and oral health disease and interventions (other than prevention) is in short supply and difficult to find. Two medical librarians from the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences collaborated to conduct a one-hour lunch and learn workshop for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Dentistry (SOD) faculty on how to find reliable dental consumer health information to provide their patients. This article describes the workshop and websites that provide valid consumer oral health information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Librarians in all library settings may receive health-related questions from patrons. Librarians in settings outside of medical and consumer health libraries may not have received training or experience in consumer health information provision. Two medical librarians with extensive consumer health information experience developed a two-day training workshop for local area librarians. The first day of the training focused on finding and evaluating medical apps for patrons. The second day emphasized consumer health information provision: consumer health reference interview, ethics, website evaluation, and demonstrations of several reliable consumer health websites. This paper explores the development and implementation of the consumer health information workshop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]