The Future of Mobile Dentistry and Teledentistry in Increasing Access to Care
Dr. Arash Hakhamian comes from a long line of dental and medical professionals. His father, mother, brother, and sister are all in the dental field. Dr. Hakhamian graduated top of his class from UCLA and USC Dental School. Dr. Hakhamian was chosen as one of the top 40 Dentists under 40 years of age by incisal edge magazine,... more
Bringing Dental Services to your Doorstep
For a long time, access to proper dental care has been a challenge for people who are either bedridden or juggling through a tight work schedule. The emergence of mobile dentistry has been able to significantly reduce those barriers of traditional dental care settings, allowing patients to avail dental care from the comfort of their preferred location and time. However, to ensure all-round dental care, it is also important to have well-vetted mobile dentists that follow proper healthcare regulatory standards even at patients’ houses. Most of the times, this is where most mobile dentist provider takes a backseat as they only try to solve the problems from a technological aspect and not from a medical standpoint.
Taking a completely different stance enters the California-based company, Dentulu. Offering an intuitive on-demand mobile dental app, Dentulu maintains an in-house, licensed mobile dentistry team that stringently adheres to all the healthcare regulatory standards and affirms the same sanitary conditions and infection control policies of stationery dental clinics while offering its dental services.
“We want to improve access to care and induce a new wave of patients taking control of their oral healthcare,” states Arash Hakhamian, an award-winning DDS, and the co-founder and CEO of Dentulu. Driven by this pursuit, the company offers a multitude of mobile dental services, including dental cleaning, whitening, complete mouth X-rays and oral exams, cancer screening, and other emergency dental services. In fact, Dentulu’s mobile dental clinic on-the-go is so simplified that it can be carried around in two small bags having all the necessary tools.
Envisioning to further improve a patient’s access to dental care, the company offers virtual dental care. “Several dental procedures and issues like active supervision and consultation for the second opinion do not require the physical presence of a dentist,” says Dr. Hakhamian. This spurred the company to include teledentistry services in its mobile app. Dentulu’s HIPAA-compliant teledentistry portal enables patients to communicate and share files (images and videos) of their dental issues with tele-dentists.
Based on the successes of these services, Dentulu also extends its unique mobile dental care offerings to corporate firms. The company’s licensed dentists can be reserved to come to a workplace and provide its employees with dental treatments. In one instance, Dentulu helped a leading digital marketing company that had over 500 employees avail oral health care at their office. This helped the employees to utilize health insurance and take care of their dental health. Furthermore, Dentulu also enabled the organization to save thousands of work hours by preventing the employees from spending an enormous amount of time for the dental check-up, which in turn increased the productivity of the firm to a great extent.
Presently, Dentulu is weeks away from launching its range of intraoral cameras to improve the precision of teledentistry. These cameras resembling a toothbrush will enable a tele-dentist to have a clear view of the patient’s mouth and examine their dental issues effectively. Besides, the cameras, coupled with Dentulu’s teledentistry services, can also equip emergency dental care centers to precisely diagnose patients’ core issues. “Due to the lack of dental specialists and high-end dental tools at the urgent care centers, patients are prescribed opioids to take care of the pain, but their core issue is never really addressed,” informs Dr. Hakhamian.
By utilizing intraoral cameras, Dr. Hakhamian believes that emergency care centers can provide quick and efficient dental care to ailing patients. Dentulu is releasing the cameras at the end of this month, which can be purchased from Amazon. On the teledentistry side, Dentulu is striving to expand its services throughout the country. “We are continuously working to achieve our moonshot aim of establishing Dentulu as the go-to dental app in everyone’s smartphone,” concludes Dr. Hakhamian.
“We want to improve access to care and induce a new wave of patients taking control of their oral healthcare.”
LISTINGS DETAILS:
Website: dentulu.com
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Management: Dr. Arash Hakhamian, Co-Founder and CEO
Description (print): Offers an on-demand mobile dental app to serve and empower both dental professionals and patients across the world with proprietary software that bridges the gap between the two.
Description (online): The company offers an on-demand mobile dental app to serve and empower both dental professionals and patients across the world with proprietary software that bridges the gap between the two. Apart from mobile dentistry, the company also offers teledentistry to patients. Dentulu’s HIPAA-compliant teledentistry portal enables patients to communicate and share files (images and videos) of their dental issues with a tele-dentist. In addition to providing its dental services to individual patients, Dentulu also extends its unique services to corporate firms. The company’s licensed dentists can be reserved to come to a workplace and provide its employees with dental treatments.
