A New and Innovative Way of Dental Care
Welcome to a new and innovative way of dental care, where patients, parents, and caregivers can learn about and request teledentistry and desensitization services. Additionally, we serve as a resource to dental, behavioral, and other healthcare providers by incorporating information on how to implement teledentistry and desensitization services in their practices. We are excited to share this information and hope you find it informative.
What is teledentistry?
Teledentisry is a unique and convenient way of experiencing a dental exam in the comfort of your own home. Our office will send one of our dental staff members to perform a thorough patient examination which includes an oral assessment, x-rays, and photographs. These records will be sent to our dentist at the office where they will create your treatment plan. Once finalized, the dentist will call at your convenience to discuss your treatment plan and answer any questions.
What is Dental Desensitization?
Dental desensitization is a technique aimed to help patients who struggle to receive dental care due to fear, anxiety, or behavioral management concerns. This approach gradually exposes patients to a dental setting by stimulating their senses such as sight, touch, sound, taste and feel that they would normally have during dental treatment. With this service, we strive to promote regular dental visits and decrease the need for GA sedation.
Provider Resources
We have put together a series of resources for dentists, behavioral therapists, and health care providers to help boost their practices and services. Our hope is that these resources will help providers take that initial step in providing their services to those with special health care needs. These resources cover; 1) Practice Benefits, 2) CEU Recommendations, and 3) Videos, photos, and tutorials.
Dentist Resources
Behavioral Therapist Resources
Practice Benefits
How to use our program
As a family member or caregiver of a patient with special health care needs or a physical/mental disability, we think our services will be invaluable to their long term oral health. We have put together a full armamentarium of information, photos, videos, toolkits, and actual services that you can utilize. By following our simple step by step program, we hope to decrease the need for GA sedation for basic dental services.
Behavioral Service Providers
We have put together a series of resources for dentists, behavioral therapists, and health care providers to help boost their practices and services. Our hope is that these resources will help providers take that initial step in providing their services to those with special health care needs. These resources cover; 1) Practice Benefits, 2) CEU Recommendations, and 3) Videos, photos, and tutorials.
Dentist Resources
Behavioral Therapist Resources
Other Health Care Provider Resources
Dental Desensitization Kit
Many times patients with special healthcare needs are afraid of the dentist because they don’t know what to expect. Our Dental Desensitization Kit is an effective at-home way of introducing patients to some of the most common and basic dental instruments and materials at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home. This kit comes with a picture book and a description of what each item is and how to use it. Click below to learn more about our custom kits or request your own kit here.