Home Oral and Dental Health Services
The aim is to provide examination, tests, treatment, medical care and rehabilitation to individuals in need in their home and family environment, together with social and psychological support for them and their families.
Our hospital started providing home oral and dental health services in 2012. Examinations and treatments at home are carried out by our health team, which includes a dentist, a nurse, a dental prosthesis technician, support staff and a driver.
Who Can Benefit?
Bedridden patients with physical or mental disabilities who require follow-up at home, especially those living in the Ataşehir and Ümraniye districts.
Services Provided
- 🦷 Oral examination
- 💊 Medication for dental and gum infections
- 🪥 Oral hygiene training (for the patient and family)
- 🦷 Simple extractions
- 🧼 Scaling (tartar removal)
- 🦷 Complete/partial dentures not requiring fixed restorations
- 🔍 Check-up of existing dentures
- 🔧 Denture relining, repair of fractures and similar procedures
When necessary, the responsible dentist may request a specialist consultation. If the patient's general condition is not suitable for treatment at home, the patient is referred to our hospital or to an inpatient health facility.
What Patients and Families Should Know
The patient's identity card and, if available, chronic disease reports are requested at the time of application.
Application and Admission
Applications are made via the National Call Centre 444 38 33. They are evaluated by the Home Health Coordination Centre of Üsküdar State Hospital and referred to our hospital.
Evaluation and Visits
- 📌 After an application reaches our system, the patient is contacted.
- 📌 A document certifying the disability and a copy of the identity card are requested.
- 📌 Visits take place every Thursday.
- 📞 The patient is informed one day before the visit.
- 🩺 The first examination is carried out on the scheduled day and time.
- 📝 The dentist prepares a treatment plan and treatment begins; visits continue in stages.
- 🔹 Informed consent forms are signed before procedures.
End of Service
Home health service ends if:
- hospitalisation is required for medical reasons,
- the patient or a relative wishes to end the service,
- the patient dies,
- the patient or relatives do not comply with the treatment.
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