What Services Does Monadnock Healthy Teeth Provide?
An MHT dental hygienist will visit local elementary schools and provide children in grades K-3 with a variety of proactive dental hygiene services in the nurse’s office and in the classroom. Those include classroom oral health education, oral visual screening, teeth cleaning, one-on-one oral health education, sealant application, and optional weekly fluoride rinses. MHT will also refer children to dentists for restorative dental care. MHT is the only school based dental program in the state that coordinates and pays for the restorative care that is provided in dental offices. Without this aspect of the program, barriers such as money and initiative often prevent children from getting restorative care. If restorative issues are not addressed, the decay process worsens. The ultimate goal of the program is to get the children to a point where they are pain and disease free, have a dental home and are seeing a dentist for regularly scheduled care.
