For patients
Waiting on a dental clearance? Here is how to keep it moving.
Your care team may need a dentist to confirm your mouth is ready before treatment starts. These steps and one printed page keep that request from getting lost.
Four questions to ask your care team
- Who needs the dental clearance, and what date do they need it by?
- Which dentist should I see, or may I choose my own?
- Who will tell me the report arrived, and how?
- If I have heard nothing by a date we agree now, who do I call?
Four steps
- Ask the care team for the request in writing, with the treatment date.
- Book the dentist and hand over the request. Ask for the report to be sent to the care team.
- Ask the dentist's office to confirm the day the report goes out.
- Check back on the date you agreed. If nobody has heard, call the care team coordinator.
Print this
Your one page request
Fill it in by hand and give a copy to your care team and your dentist.
- Hospital
- ________________________
- Care team contact
- ________________________
- Treatment date
- ________________________
- Report needed by
- ________________________
- Dentist and phone
- ________________________
- Report sent on
- ________________________
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