“…Other reasons for nurse and care worker noncompliance include a lack of confidence or unreliable assumptions about the efficacy of their own oral health standards (which are unlikely to be evidence‐based practice for older people); reluctance due to their own dental anxieties; fear of being bitten or hurting older people who exhibit care‐resistant behaviours; and the perception that intraoral care is an invasion of privacy (Chalmers & Pearson, ; Hoben et al., ; Jablonski, Theerrien, & Kolanowski, ; McNally et al., ; Miegel & Wachtel, ). Most disturbing is the ubiquitous negativity attributed to oral health care (Hopcraft, Morgan, Satur, Wright, & Darby, ; Janssens et al., ; Knevel et al., ; Sloane et al., ), with some nurses and care workers openly admitting they would rather clean up an incident of incontinence than brush older people's teeth (Dharamsi et al., ; Unfer, Braun, de Oliveira Ferreira, Raut, & Batista, ).…”