This week Matt Crespin is joined by members of his team from Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin to talk about the Medical Dental Integration Project! Lindsay Deinhammer, RN, BSN and Jenna Linden, RDH, CDHC discuss the work they do at the Children's Health Alliance to promote dental medical integration!

Episode Highlights

• Lindsay and Jenna's Backgrounds
• Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin
• Dental Medical Integration
• Research
• Success Stories

Quotes

"Implementing the work is much more challenging."

"The aim is to create system change State wide in primary care clinics by integrating dental hygienists into medical care teams to provide early prevention and intervention."

"It is really exciting to see the collaboration that is occurring."

"There isn't a large cost to implementing this project into the clinic."

"We break down what that workflow looks like."

"You just have to make sure the hygienist comes in before the nurse does the vaccines."

"It is hard to pick one success story because we are seeing the impact across the state."

"We can prevent kids from having to go to the hospital for full mouth restorations."

Links

How A Dental Hygienist Can Change A Medical Setting

Dental Hygiene in Medical Settings - ADHA Resource

https://www.mightycause.com/story/Adhaiohmatt

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