Dental home for children

A Dental Home Is A Place Where Children Can Receive Consistent, Comprehensive, Compassionate Dental Care.

Establishing a "Dental Home" means that your child's oral health care is delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated and family-centered way by a licensed dentist. The concept of the Dental Home reflects clinical guidelines and best principles for the proper delivery of oral health care to all children, with a concentration on infant/age one patients. The Dental Home enhances the dental professional's ability to assist children and their parents in the quest for optimum oral health care, beginning with the age one dental visit for successful preventive care and treatment as part of an overall oral health care foundation. Additionally, the establishment of the Dental Home will include referral to other dental specialists when the pediatric or general dentist cannot provide the needed care.

• Comprehensive oral health care, including acute care and preventive services;
• Comprehensive assessment for oral diseases and conditions
• An individualized preventive dental health program based upon a caries-risk assessment and a periodontal disease risk assessment.
• Information about proper care of the child’s teeth and gingivae
• Referrals to dental specialists when care cannot directly be provided within the dental home