It may seem like “Mission Impossible”, but here are 2 tools that can help you – AND that can help your dentist – better communicate with medical professionals.
In the world of oral-systemic health and functional medicine, practitioners realize the importance of collaboration between ALL health care professionals if they are to ensure that the patient receives the best care. But in our highly compartmentalized health care system, that can be difficult to achieve.
Dr. Chip Whitney, a family practice, functional medicine, physician, one of the featured speakers on the Functional Oral and Airway Health Summit, and featured in the documentary film “Say Ahh – The Cavity in Health Care Reform“, has put together a highly informative and well-referenced PDF letter you can print out and give to your doctor – or anyone on your medical health team.
And another, similar letter, in Word document format, that your dentist can personalize and send to your primary care physician or anyone on your health care team to present the importance of good oral health and how it impacts the WHOLE patient. Get that letter HERE
[Full disclosure: Dr. Whitney offers a program to help dentist reach out to the medical practitioners in their community. This is not aimed at patients/consumers and we are not suggesting you consider buying it unless you are a dental clinician. We receive no compensation for any business you do with Dr. Whitney and offer his information ONLY as a service to our readers that we thought might be useful/helpful.]