Guest

Sonya Dunbar, RDH, MHA, is a TEDx and national public speaker guided by over 30 years of dental experience in private practice, skilled nursing facilities, and academia. Sonya and her husband, Gerald Dunbar (both Navy veterans), are the owners of Mobile Dental Xpress, providing comprehensive dental care to long-term care facilities. In addition, Sonya is a geriatric oral health educator providing hands-on training to Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) who work with aging adults. The co-founder of the National Mobile & Teledentistry Dental Conference and the American Mobile Dentistry & Teledentistry Alliance, Sonya is currently pursuing a PhD in Gerontology.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted issues of access to healthcare across the US and globally. With oral health as an example, Beyond the Standard, explores how innovative approaches combining mobile services and telehealth have bridged gaps in access and created new income opportunities providers with accreditation offering assurance of quality.

Key Topics

“The Geriatric Toothfairy” origin story (1:40) Pandemic accelerated range of mobile dentistry practice specialties (3:06) Access isn’t only for the underserved (4:42) “It doesn’t take away from the brick-and-mortar building.” (5:17) “Mobile dentistry and teledentistry go together like peanut butter and jelly.” (6:04) Starting a national organization, bringing mobile clinicians together. “Together we’re stronger.” (7:39) The oral-systemic link; combining mobile dentistry and mobile medical (9:18) Establishing the bar for quality of care through accreditation (10:15) The changing face of dentistry (14:05) One more question: long-term care workarounds during COVID lockdowns (16:45)

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