Dental Implants

  UPDATE: Mandate Lifted, we are open for routine procedures again.

5/1/2020

Dear Patients:

We hope this letter finds you and your family in good health. Our community has been through much over the last few months, and all of us are looking forward to resuming some semblance of our normal habits and routines. While many things have changed, one thing has remained the same: our commitment to your safety.

Infection control has always been a top priority for our practice and you may have seen this during your visits to our office. Our infection control processes are made so when you receive care, it’s both safe and comfortable. We want to tell you about the infection control procedures we follow in our practice to keep patients and staff safe.

Our office follows infection control recommendations made by the American Dental Association (ADA), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). We follow the activities of these agencies so we are up-to-date on any new rulings or guidance that may be issued. We do this to make sure our infection control procedures are current and adhere to each agencies’ recommendations.

You may see some changes when it is time for your next appointment. We made these changes to help protect our patients and staff as we continue to try to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. For example:

• – Our office will communicate with you beforehand to ask some screening questions. You’ll be asked those same questions again when you are in the office.
• – We have hand sanitizer we will ask you to use when you enter the office. You will also find some in the reception area and other places in the office for you to use as needed. We have also installed an air purification system to sanitize the air in our office.
• – We are disinfecting the common touch points in our whole office at least every hour, including counters, doorknobs and the bathroom. You will see that our waiting room will no longer offer magazines, children’s toys and so forth, since those items are difficult to clean and disinfect.
• – Appointments will be managed to allow for social distancing between patients. That might mean that you’re offered fewer options for scheduling your appointment.
• – We will do our best to allow greater time between patients to reduce waiting times for you, as well as to reduce the number of patients in the reception area at any one time.

We look forward to seeing you again and are happy to answer any questions you may have about the steps we take to keep you, and every patient, safe in our practice. Thank you for being our patient. We value your trust and loyalty and look forward to welcoming back our patients, neighbors and friends.

Blessings,

Dr Gamber and Team