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Office Visit
What aspects of it would
you miss most if you were
to ever transition into
private practice?
At this point in my career, I would
miss my patients. I've been with YVFWC
for almost seven years now and I have an
established practice. My patients have
shown their appreciation for my work by
bringing me goodies, trusting me with
their children's and family's dental needs.
I've seen their children grow over the years
and the provider-patient relationship has
grown. I have staff and co-workers I love
to work with and trust.
Unlike many public health dental
clinics, we don't have a ton of turnover.
Many of the assistants have been here for
15-plus years. The other dentist-who
was actually one of my mentors in dental
school-has also given his life to public
health dentistry and has been with YVFWC
for 16 years. Work environment is super
important to me; I've been in offices where
you can feel the negative energy. We don't
have that.
How did you and your office
handle the pandemic?
It was rough and stressful, as I know
many other dentists felt too.
Our clinic did stay open during the
pandemic with a limited staff. Most of our
staff were put on standby and we rotated
through the staff dentists-I would have two
weeks on, then two weeks off. We saw only
dental emergencies; no aerosol procedures.
We followed the guidelines as they came
out, and were constantly changing our
workflows to adapt to the ever-changing
information from the CDC. Essentially,
we're practicing dentistry in a plastic bubble
now, but I'm getting used to it.
Many of the private offices in our valley
completely closed or took calls only during
those initial months of the pandemic, so I was
honored that we could provide an option for
the community to seek emergency dental care.
You did have one tool that
some private docs would be
jealous of during all this ...
Yes, one of the greatest benefits of
working in a community health clinic during
this pandemic was our connected health care
software that links our patients' medical
and dental records. We have access to their
full medical records-their medication lists,
their emergency visit encounters and labs,
including their COVID-19 test results.
We have been using Wisdom software for
almost two years now.
We did all the COVID-19 screening
over the phone the day before a patient's
appointment and screened them again from

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