Dental Economics October 5, 2023
The two hours average patients spend in your chair each year can have more value to their overall health—including mental—than many dentists realize. Here are proactive steps to bridge this gap.
There’s a substantial link between oral and mental health, and dental professionals often undervalue their unique position to provide more holistic care that can improve their patients’ overall health and well-being, in addition to addressing mental health barriers to oral health self-care. With as many as 27 million patients seeing a dentist every year but forgoing doctor visits,1 dentists often serve as a main entry point to the health-care system.
As emphasis grows on integrating patient care and providing a more holistic health-care experience across mental, physical, and oral...
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