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.
Proven experience
More than 73,500 patient visits took place in the first five years of the Colorado Medical-Dental Integration (CO MDI) Project.
Is your practice ready?
Determine what your medical practice needs to integrate a hygienist into your care team.
