From Stagnation to Celebration: An Overview of a Successful Community-Based Dental Partnership Program

This session is an overview of a Part F dental program's two-year journey to increase access to oral healthcare for people with HIV. The number of clients served, which was stagnant for several years, increased by 126% over the two-year initiative through increased collaboration and integration, dental case management, and innovative ways to increase capacity.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand simple techniques to begin to implement primary care and oral healthcare integration.
2. Become familiar with ways to implement elements of dental case management – without necessarily having a dedicated dental case manager in the program.
3. Introduce methods to increase capacity of an existing dental clinic.