Oral Health Screening

Domicillary Care

The Hospital Setting

School Dental Services

Rural and Remote Dentistry

Military Field Dentistry

Geriatric Care

Private Practice Dentistry

Smile Centres and Retail Dentistry

Dental Schools

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Age Care Dentistry

Ageing population

Ageing populations present large challenges to systems and long-term care, particularly in the case of long-term care where changes are needed in both the kind of service that is provided as well as in financing mechanisms. In terms of the framework for an ageing reform strategy, there are important effects on the fiscal, active and individual/collective balance dimensions.

The fiscal effects are the result of a gradual increase in health problems among people as they get older. In addition, there is a heavy increase in health care costs in the year or two preceding death. In some countries, one half of all health care expenditures occur in the last two years of a life span.

While the precise balance between these two factors is not fully understood, the combined result is that there is a heavy concentration of health problems and long-term care costs among older people, particularly the very elderly.

Nursing homes

• Eliminating the need for a fixed dental office at the nurse home
• Move to the patient’s bedside – not taking the patient out of bed
• Increase the oral services for less cost
• Improving nursing homes work methods
• Transport is costly and inefficient
• Impaired or handicapped have little access to the dental office
• The patient is inconvenient to transport
• The patient is often rejected by the dentist as a patient when handicapped

Mobile units can be used in most cases at smaller and medium-sized nursing homes and only in severe cases will it be necessary to take patients to a dental clinic.  

The services that can be provided by DentalMan on a mobile basis are:  

DentalMan Cordless solutions: rechargeable battery-operated instruments for preventive purposes, screening, cleaning, polishing fillings, adjusting dentures, smaller acrylic jobs, etc.  

DentalMan Compact Unit: makes it possible to treat the vast majority of patients on the spot. The Compact unit on wheels is ideal when visiting patients in their rooms at nursing homes.