• Dental care delivered in medical settings increases access to care.
  • Cavities are the most common chronic disease of childhood.
  • The CO MDI Project is the first to integrate up to the full
    scope of dental hygiene services in primary care settings.

Improving oral health outcomes
by integrating medical and dental care

This toolkit serves as a how-to guide for medical organizations seeking to fully integrate a dental hygienist into a medical care team. Medical-dental integration can take on various forms including:

  • Oral health promotion by medical providers.
  • Co-locating dental services on-site at primary care practices.
  • Teledentistry.
  • Fully integrating dental hygienists into medical care teams.

Join the growing number of medical practices providing fully integrated dental hygiene services.

Steps to medical-dental integration

Proven experience

More than 73,500 patient visits took place in the first five years of the Colorado Medical-Dental Integration (CO MDI) Project.

Find out how it was done