TMG Dental Health Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization providing comprehensive dental care to underserved/uninsured school age children residing in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Currently, the TMG Healthy Smiles Oral Health Program identifies underserved children in schools then provides dental health education, examinations, prophylaxes, fluoride varnishes, and dental sealants. The Michigan Dental Association Foundation grant will be used by TMG to purchase a portable Nomad digital X-ray machine.
TMG Dental Health Foundation and its community partners — St. John Community Health Investment Corporation and Detroit Public Schools — plan to implement a Virtual Dental Home Project. The goal is to increase access to dental services for approximately 300 children enrolled in the program. The project will target children with chronic dental disease in grades 6-12 in the Detroit Public Schools. This program will utilize technology to link practitioners in the community with dentists at remote office sites.
According to TMG, the project will expand and improve access to dental services by giving participating dentists the technological capability to review patients’ dental records remotely, with help from a TMG-licensed P.A. 161 mid-level provider, and then recommend a treatment plan. The primary focus of the program at first calls for the program dentist to:
- review digital records after children receive an oral assessment and preventive care, and
- identify which cases can be managed on site and which should be referred to a dentist or Federally Qualified Health Center in the community for specialty care.
If a referral is required, the program dentist and referral dentists would share electronic health chart documentation, digital images, photographs, and all pertinent data to develop appropriate treatment planning.
“This care delivery model provides a much-needed community-based Virtual Dental Home for Detroit’s most vulnerable people — children — and removes some of the barriers to receiving care in a traditional dental office setting,” said Dr. James A. Murray, CEO of the TMG Foundation.
TMG Dental Health Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization providing comprehensive dental care to underserved/uninsured school age children residing in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Currently, the TMG Healthy Smiles Oral Health Program identifies underserved children in schools then provides dental health education, examinations, prophylaxes, fluoride varnishes, and dental sealants. The Michigan Dental Association Foundation grant will be used by TMG to purchase a portable Nomad digital X-ray machine.
TMG Dental Health Foundation and its community partners — St. John Community Health Investment Corporation and Detroit Public Schools — plan to implement a Virtual Dental Home Project. The goal is to increase access to dental services for approximately 300 children enrolled in the program. The project will target children with chronic dental disease in grades 6-12 in the Detroit Public Schools. This program will utilize technology to link practitioners in the community with dentists at remote office sites.
According to TMG, the project will expand and improve access to dental services by giving participating dentists the technological capability to review patients’ dental records remotely, with help from a TMG-licensed P.A. 161 mid-level provider, and then recommend a treatment plan. The primary focus of the program at first calls for the program dentist to:
- review digital records after children receive an oral assessment and preventive care, and
- identify which cases can be managed on site and which should be referred to a dentist or Federally Qualified Health Center in the community for specialty care.
If a referral is required, the program dentist and referral dentists would share electronic health chart documentation, digital images, photographs, and all pertinent data to develop appropriate treatment planning.
“This care delivery model provides a much-needed community-based Virtual Dental Home for Detroit’s most vulnerable people — children — and removes some of the barriers to receiving care in a traditional dental office setting,” said Dr. James A. Murray, CEO of the TMG Foundation.