Is It Your Turn Yet?
May 2008
"Dental Care For The Physically and Mentally Challenged"
It is a blessing in our practice that the great majority of You can have good dental care even if you have some anxiety regarding the event of being at the dentist office.
Oral sedation, in our office, has given us the ability to treat 98% of the people who seek care. What I am addressing today, are the 2% that physically or mentally are unable to have dental care even with oral sedation. To be honest, I have not encountered a fully functional, mentally/physically healthy individual that cannot have dental care in our office with oral sedation. It is the individual who is bed ridden in a nursing home or the severely mentally/physically challenged individual that we have been unable to give the quality of care that we desire.
As of March 2008, Mayo Hospital has purchased a dental unit that can be utilized in the operating room so that Dr. Caruso and I can treat individuals with severe disabilities who require general sedation. This allows even the most severely challenged individuals to receive quality care in a very safe environment. This is a day surgery in which the patient comes into the operating room about 2 hours early and leaves the same day. An anesthesiologist/anesthesist is with the patient at all times during the sedation process.
Mayo Hospital’s commitment to this service is to be applauded as this is the first time in Piscataquis County that this population can have preventive and restorative care, ie: fillings, root canals, etc. There are two dentists in Bangor who treat dentists at EMMC,,but the waiting period is months away.
In this day of keeping teeth rather than being condemned to full dentures, it is terrific that all individuals in our area can now have complete care available to them.
If you are interested in these services, please call our office at 564-3455 or Linda Zimmerman at Mayo Hospital 564-4262.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Article written by: Dr. Daniel L. Steinke
It is a blessing in our practice that the great majority of You can have good dental care even if you have some anxiety regarding the event of being at the dentist office.
Oral sedation, in our office, has given us the ability to treat 98% of the people who seek care. What I am addressing today, are the 2% that physically or mentally are unable to have dental care even with oral sedation. To be honest, I have not encountered a fully functional, mentally/physically healthy individual that cannot have dental care in our office with oral sedation. It is the individual who is bed ridden in a nursing home or the severely mentally/physically challenged individual that we have been unable to give the quality of care that we desire.
As of March 2008, Mayo Hospital has purchased a dental unit that can be utilized in the operating room so that Dr. Caruso and I can treat individuals with severe disabilities who require general sedation. This allows even the most severely challenged individuals to receive quality care in a very safe environment. This is a day surgery in which the patient comes into the operating room about 2 hours early and leaves the same day. An anesthesiologist/anesthesist is with the patient at all times during the sedation process.
Mayo Hospital’s commitment to this service is to be applauded as this is the first time in Piscataquis County that this population can have preventive and restorative care, ie: fillings, root canals, etc. There are two dentists in Bangor who treat dentists at EMMC,,but the waiting period is months away.
In this day of keeping teeth rather than being condemned to full dentures, it is terrific that all individuals in our area can now have complete care available to them.
If you are interested in these services, please call our office at 564-3455 or Linda Zimmerman at Mayo Hospital 564-4262.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Article written by: Dr. Daniel L. Steinke
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