Guest Editorial: The Colorado Medical-Dental Integration Project


The traditional model of providing clinical dental hygiene services in a private practice setting involves a daily patient schedule. Dental hygienists provide a full scope of dental hygiene services to patients who have made appointments, and dentists provide restorative dental care. Medical-dental integration differs from this model. It’s an emerging and evolving concept that seeks to reach populations with high, unmet oral health care needs who are not currently receiving regular dental care.

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