Dental Services Available for Students During the School Day!
In partnership with Mosaic Community Dental, a portable dental office is coming to your student's school! A mobile dental office, with equipment, will be set up in our schools and includes a Dental chair and light, Dental delivery unit with air and water outputs and Sterilization equipment.
How Do I Enroll My Child?
Enrolled students will be seen by a dental professional from Mosaic Health Community Dentistry during their school day. If your child needs follow-up dental care and you do not already have a dentist, we will send home a referral list of providers in your area or they can become a patient at any Mosaic Health location. In fact, we can treat your entire family for all your primary care and dental needs.
You can download/print the registration packet here. Additionally, Registration packets are distributed to each child in the school. The school nurse also has registration packets for Community Dentistry. In order for your child to be treated, a registration packet needs to be completed. The registration includes a health history form for your child because oral health is directly related to overall wellness.
Mosaic Health Community Dentistry
Since 1995, Community Dentistry has helped children keep their smiles healthy through serves right at their schools. Today, the program serves more than 100 schools and Head Starts throughout the Finger Lakes region.
Care for kids.
Through Community Dentistry, your school-age kids can receive quality, affordable, accessible dental services, regardless of insurance status. That includes basic checkups, supplies like toothbrushes and floss, and instructions in how to care for their teeth. Plus, you can sign up your kids at participating schools to receive additional services like X-rays, teeth cleaning, fluoride treatments, and more. Other services that you, as the parent/legal guardian, may request are:
• Dental exam by a pediatric dentist
• Dental cleaning
• Fluoride treatment
• Dental sealants (if recommended)
Have Insurance?
We welcome patients with major/private insurance coverage, as well as:
• Medicaid
• Fidelis/Dentaquest
• Child Health Plus
• Healthplex
• Essential Plans
Don't Have Insurance?
Mosaic can help. Students who don’t have insurance or don’t have enough insurance coverage may qualify for the Sliding Fee Discount Program, which is based on your current household size and income. No child will be turned away—Community Dentistry will see any child enrolled by their parent/legal guardian, regardless of their ability to pay.
New York State Education Department requires all students to have a dental exam (as well as a physical exam) as follows:
-All new entrants - all PreK or Kindergarten students, all students who attend school in this District for the first time at Kindergarten or any other grade
-All students in grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11
As with the health exams, dental exams performed on or after Sept. 1 of the year before the child enters the District or the mandated grade, or later, may be used in any of the mandated grades. The school nurse must have documentation of the exam on the state-approved dental certificate form or other official documentation from the dental office. We cannot accept a parent's report of an exam or jotted note from the dentist saying only that student had one.
Click here to download the blank dental certificate form. Your school nurse can also provide this form. Your dentist also probably has the appropriate form.