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THE CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE,
FROM PRACTITIONERS
"Implementing teledentistry into
your practice is not the challenge; the
challenge is how to utilize the information
you gain from the technology."
-Dr. Brittany Kinol, Wexford, Pennsylvania
T
he entertainer/humanitarian
Jerry Lewis had his "kids," and
Dr. Brittany Kinol certainly
has hers. As the owner of a
pediatric dental practice in
a town with a population of
roughly 24,000 people, Kinol integrated
teledentistry into her practice in 2017,
focusing its capabilities on the segment of
the population central to her professional
calling: children, specifically ones enrolled
in Head Start programs-some located as
far as two hours away from her practice.
"This allows us to have much more
access to kids who normally wouldn't be
seen because of poor access to care," she says.
Using TeleDent technology by MouthWatch that enables patient data, clinical
information, intraoral images and videos to
be shared live or recorded and stored for later
review, Kinol dispatches her public health
dental hygiene practitioners with intraoral
cameras and mobile dental equipment into
the Head Start sites, while she does the exams
from a brick-and-mortar office.
If Kinol deems that immediate care is
needed, Head Start provides transportation
for the family to the office so the child can
be seen for restorative care. If it's not an
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emergency, appointments can be scheduled
for treatment from one to three months out,
depending on the nature of the treatment.
"Recently, my hygienist was at a Head
Start two hours away that was concerned
about a specific boy who regularly attended
the program. Personnel at the facility got
his parents' consent for to us to treat him,"
Kinol says. "My hygienist performed a dental
cleaning and a fluoride varnish, and took
X-rays, intraoral pictures and an intraoral
video. Upon completion of the exam, it
was determined that the boy had several
abscessed and decayed teeth that needed
extractions and restorations.
"I sent a task over Open Dental [practice
management software licensed under the
GNU General Public License] to my front
desk to review the boy's chart and call his
family to get him scheduled for treatment.
Head Start then transported the boy and
his family to us, and in less than a week and
a half, we had him in for a complete oral
rehab under IV sedation."
Kinol uses the specific of this patient's
treatment to emphasize a personal observation regarding what she sees as one of
teledentistry's caveats: "Implementing it
into your practice is not the challenge; the
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