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on their scope of practice in the state of California; if the
patient requires additional comprehensive services, they are
referred to the JSFC hub. “Through a ‘hub and spoke’
“The goal is that once treatment is completed at the Jeff model, the allied dental
Seymour Family Center with our dental students, then these
children are able to return to their respective school site professional…collects data on a
(spoke location based on the hub and spoke model) and patient at the ‘spoke’ location and
follow a customized preventative care model based on their
risk for cavities. This way, we limit the examinations, data shares the information with the
collection, and preventative services to the spoke sites –
minimizing the amount of time off work for parents and dentist via the shared electronic
guardians, as well as absences at the student’s school,” health system. The dentist
Watanabe said. “The difference in our model versus other
models is our dental students are being trained as both the on- (connected remotely) and allied
site RDAEFs as well as the remotely located dental providers.
They’re learning both from the allied dental professional and dental personnel work with the
the dentist perspective.” patient’s parents or guardians to

CDM developed its teledentistry program with Dr. Paul determine the best treatment plan
Glassman, Professor Emeritus at the Arthur A. Dugoni School
of Dentistry at the University of the Pacific, who pioneered for the child.”
teledentistry.

Opposite page: WesternU RDAEF Veronica Lozano (blue shirt) and Nicole McBain talk to first-year CDM students about teledentistry and their roles as
RDAEF’s. Below: Third-year CDM student Katie Chapman, left, works on five-year-old patient Katie Rincon, as WesternU RDAEF Veronica Lozano, left,
and Nicole McBain assist

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