The MouthWatch
Teledentistry Innovation Awards
TELEDENTISTRY WILL CHANGE DENTAL CARE.
INNOVATORS FIGURE OUT HOW.
TELEDENTISTRY WILL CHANGE DENTAL CARE.
INNOVATORS FIGURE OUT HOW.
Why The Innovation Award?
MouthWatch has launched the Teledentistry Innovation Award to shine a light on those innovators and pioneers across the spectrum of connected dental care who are leading the way and showing by example how teledentistry technology can enhance dentistry, reach more patients, and improve oral health.
Let’s help the world learn from those leading the way. Please submit your candidate for the MouthWatch Teledentistry Innovation Award (which can also be yourself or your organization).
INTRO:
MouthWatch has launched the Teledentistry Innovator Award to shine a light on those innovators and pioneers across the spectrum of connected dental care who are leading the way and showing by example how teledentistry technology can enhance dentistry, reach more patients, and improve oral health.
Let’s help the world learn from those leading the way. Please submit your candidate for the MouthWatch Teledentistry Innovation Award (which can also be yourself or your organization).
Submit an Innovator:
Award Details
The Teledentistry Innovation Award will be selected from submissions received through these nominations. We are looking to award Dentists, Dental Hygienists and Dental Care Programs.
- Receive a cash grant of $1000
- Win a super cool award to show your friends
- Win airfare and lodging at the announcement event at the 2019 Greater New York Dental Meeting
- Be invited to speak at the award ceremony and other possible speaking opportunities
- Have your business, practice or program highlighted in a press release and announcements from MouthWatch
Award Categories
Dentist/Specialist Category
The entry will celebrate a dentist or dental specialist who has incorporated teledentistry into their practice model to reach new patients, connect existing patients to care, collaborate with other providers or shown true innovation in the way their care is enhanced through teledentistry.
Dental Hygiene Category
The entry will recognize a dental hygienist who has used teledentistry technology to bring new ways of thinking to the delivery of preventive care. From enhanced screening programs, mobile hygiene programs, public health settings, collaborative or independent practice models and any other way to increase connected care delivery.
Oral Health Program Category
The entry will be an organization (non-profit or for profit) who has introduced teledentistry into their workflows in order to increase efficient care delivery, bring dental expertise to new settings and improve the oral health of patients in any setting.
Award Eligibility
The application can happen in any setting: private practice, group practice, schools, senior care, medical/dental integration, dental specialists, dental vendors (such as labs) and in any dental professional role.
Candidates can be from outside the US.
Award Announcement and Deadlines
- Submissions for 2020 nominees are now open.
- The MouthWatch Teledentistry Innovation Award Dental, Dental Hygiene, and Program Category Winners will be announced at the Greater New York Dental Meeting on November 27th, 2020.
- Award winners will be contacted by MouthWatch ahead of the announcement.
When & Where
The dentist/specialist and program award will be awarded on November 27th, 2020 at the Greater New York Dental Meeting.
Past Winners
2019
Dental Innovator:
Paul Labbe, DDS – Planet Dental
Dr. Labbe is a pediatric dentist with 5 office locations. He uses teledentistry to provide care to underserved children in his community. Teledentistry enables him and his team to conduct dental screenings at local schools and then in turn, provide the parents and guardians with diagnosis and treatment plans with the option to bring their children to one of his offices for restorative treatment.
Oral Health Program Innovator:
MiQuel McRae, RDH, CDHC, – ToothBUDDS
Miquel founded ToothBUDDS, a non-profit that employs a team of dental hygienists to provide
oral care to underserved children in her area – Many of which have some form or oral disease. Miquel and her team provide education, screenings, cleanings and fluoride treatments in local school settings. Thanks to teledentistry, they can connect children with urgent dental needs to a local dentist, so they don’t fall through the cracks.
Hygiene Innovator:
Angie Stone, RDH – Hylife Oral Health Alliance
Angie and her team of oral care specialists provide onsite hygiene services to elderly patients who live in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and private homes. They use teledentistry to document each patient visit with intraoral photos and videos and to communicate with family members and participating dentists to ensure that their clients receive restorative care when needed.
Teledentistry Pioneer
Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA, – University of the Pacific
Dr. Glassman is the first recipient in the newly created “Teledentistry Pioneer” category. He is the founder of the Virtual Dental Home Program, whereby he and his team at the University of the Pacific developed a more efficient way to connect patients to dental care through the combination of technology and innovation. This care-delivery model, combined with his efforts in education, in supporting legislative changes that support teledentistry and improve access to care have helped create a landscape where more and more programs and providers are interested in teledentistry and the opportunities it creates.
2018
Dr. Brittany Kinol – Miracle Dental
With two offices in the Pittsburgh area, Miracle Dental reaches children in a range of settings that are most convenient for them and their families. By coordinating care delivery with Head Start programs, schools, and public insurance carriers, Miracle Dental’s mobile hygienists use teledentistry to deliver preventive care to students in the most convenient way possible.
Liz Best – NYU
Liz is a grants administrator at the New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry, who obtained a Human Resources & Services Administration grant to fund the implementation of teledentistry technology into the school’s curriculum. Working with TeleDent, NYU has incorporated teledentistry technology into second year coursework.
Staci Stout, RDH, BSDH – Smart Smiles
Smart Smiles, a school-based oral health program based in Utah that focuses on prevention. Its mobile hygiene program provides care to children at school to ensure they have access to oral healthcare. A team of hygienists equipped with portable preventive care equipment and teledentistry technology see children at more than 30 schools in the Salt Lake City area.
MouthWatch creates tools for connected dentistry.
Our passion for connecting patients and providers led us to the develop the only software solution designed specifically for the implementation of teledentistry across a range of settings. By connecting all dental care providers through groundbreaking software, effective dental care delivery can now be unleashed no matter where a patient might be located. Using teledentistry, care providers are reaching new groups of patients, in a sustainable and profitable manner – addressing access to care issues for patients along with the business and care-delivery challenges that today’s dental care providers face.
TeleDent, the MouthWatch teledentistry solution, streamlines collaboration between patients, dentists, hygienists, specialists and other health care providers across a wide range of settings.
In 2018, we launched the Teledentistry Innovation Award to highlight the varied ways that teledentistry is being implemented across the spectrum of dental care and dental providers that are realizing the potential for connected dental care technology to reshape the nature of dentistry and oral health in the US and beyond!