Mobile Dental Care At Nursing Homes Is An Excellent Solution

For people who need special attention,  nursing home dental services is a valuable health care tool. Older people and fragile people, the more vulnerable senior community, can find it difficult to get to a dentist and can find it stressful to get to a dentist. Because of this, and because older people do not always have support available to them, they may neglect their health and in this case, they may particularly neglect their oral care. And yet oral hygiene and oral care become more important as people age, because their teeth and their gums age too, and can cause untold problems. The idea behind a mobile dental care practice is for the mobile practice to go to the patient, either to the nursing homes or the special care facility, or to a rural or impoverished area where there is a lack of facilities, and see anyone who needs to see them.

Dentists on wheels

A mobile dental clinic is basically a dental practice, just like one in a block of offices or rooms, but it is on wheels. It is transportable! The dental clinic has the dental chair, a dental stool, good lighting, mirrors, and all the fittings and fixtures that a mobile dentist needs, as well as all the dental equipment. For an older patient, they need to walk from the care facility, with an aide if they need one, to the mobile van, enter it and sit down. It is really easy and non-stressful for the older patient and the dentists are well-versed in geriatric care and in special needs care. 

Older people have particular needs when it comes to oral care and mobile dental services, including dentures, extractions, implants and root canal, but not limited to these things. A nursing home dental services specializes in the aged and their special needs.