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Innovate with emerging models?

Innovative models provide new and different opportunities to intersect with dental service provision for your patients and families.

Colorado Medical Dental Integration Toolkit includes a Readiness Assessment Tool on integrating a dental hygienist into pediatric practice.

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Tele-dentistry and virtual dental homes are emerging as models of care that help overcome obstacles in getting into a dental office.

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SMILE Dental Project, a Colorado Medical Dental Integration, works to integrate dental hygienists in a wide variety of community spaces.

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Community Dental Health Coordinators focus on case management, navigation, oral health education and promotion, motivational interviewing and community mapping. Their expertise links patients into available, but underutilized, dental care.

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Smile Connect is Altarum’s integrated oral health care scalable model that combines provider education and information technology to improve access to dental care.

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