Thermography for Registered Dental Hygienists & Medical Professionals
Dental and medical practitioners are the key to bridging the gap between dental health and whole body health by working in conjunction with functional wellness centers.
Dental offices play a vital role in total body wellness assessments.
More people visit dental offices because they want to make sure their teeth and gums are healthy. What most dental offices do not realize is their critical role in anti-aging and prevention of major body diseases. They are an important piece of the integrative health team.
Dental and Medical providers actually increase their business of referrals because the wellness clinics are constantly in need of dental well care treatments for their clients.
The disconnect happens when at a patient’s dental hygiene appointment is told to “floss better” when there is inflammation and bleeding gum tissue observed.
Perhaps the bleeding gum tissue could be early warning signs of diabetes, heart disease, organ failure, pre-stroke, or Parkinson’s.
Or what about teeth that have occlusal wear? Could their spine be out of alignment contributing to back pain and arthritis in the hips or joints?
What if the Dental Hygienist saw these early warning mouth inflammatory indicators in the patient and encouraged them to visit a wellness center for total body assessments by a trained team of practitioners?
Why are Registered Dental Hygienists so important to the wellness team?
A Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH) has been trained in their education prior to clinical work to assess the oral-systemic links presented and is licensed by the state and national board.
Dental Hygienists are highly trained professionals in assessing the mouth and body connections of total body healthcare. They possess the skill set available to recognize mouth and body inflammatory markers.
This preliminary screening at dental hygiene recalls is a golden opportunity for all dental offices to take and there are billing codes for insurance coverage.
A new role for Dental Hygienists is to help close the dental-medical communication gap by taking these mouth and body connection assessments at every patient dental hygiene recall appointment.
Dental-Medical Thermography scan imaging is one of the safest ways to quickly assess oral-systemic links and insights that may otherwise go unnoticed.
Photo pictured shows RDH Sasha Bryant demonstrating the use of DMT Scan imaging inside dental offices.
Hygienists now have a safe tool to use for quickly assessing the mouth and body connection with just three dental medical thermography scans.
Using a medical grade resolution Infrared camera, the dental hygiene patient can be scanned for any underlying health issues.
This procedure is also billable through dental insurances, and most importantly, this simple Dental-Medical Thermography Scan helps to locate any underlying dental diseases that may be existing for your patients.
It is essential to catch these early stages of disease progression with the dental hygienist who can then refer them to an integrative wellness team to address.
The goal is to provide the dental and medical providers with information on how to customize treatment for each client’s pathway to total balance of wellness.
Take your career to the next level and become a Dental Hygiene Nurse!
Dental Hygienists now can blossom in a dental office or wellness center environment using their dental hygiene nurse training to expand with. The Dental Hygiene Nurse certification offered by the Institute of TanGram Integrative Health Solutions, LLC is online and easy to begin.
Utilizing Dental Medical Thermography and your DHN certification with your Dental Hygiene clinical skills helps to bridge the gap between dental and medical providers for the best client outcomes.
Dental Hygienists trained as a Dental Hygiene Nurse now have the whole body skill set to DMT Scan the entire body using TOSI TOOLS application to produce TanGram Dental-Medical Thermography Scan Reports for the entire team at a functional wellness center.
