This toolkit is a step-by-step guide for dental providers to help their patients get health benefits for the dental care of ectodermal dysplasias. It also includes common diagnostic codes and letters of support. An administrator from a dental office who has successfully got benefits for all 50 of their patients with ectodermal dysplasias helped us…
Tooth Party Kit
Is your child getting a new set of dentures? Help them celebrate by throwing a Tooth Party! This Tooth Party Kit will help you make it a fun event for your child. It’s a great way to encourage them to wear their dentures. It includes materials for activities coloring pages bookmarks certificates and more! Start…
Insurance Tool Kit
A Step-by-Step Guide to Get Medical Benefits for Dental Care of Ectodermal Dysplasias Families affected by ectodermal dysplasias encounter a wide range of challenges as they strive to meet their needs and that of their children. They face troublesome problems such as treatment issues, school concerns and dealing with insurance companies. Ectodermal dysplasias are a diverse…
How Dentures Are Made
Most people who have missing teeth due to ectodermal dysplasia will need dentures as part of their treatment plan. This article reviews “dentures” – definition, steps used to create a denture, materials used, time involved, composition of materials used in the denture base and the repair of broken dentures.
Taming The Angel in the Chair
The management of child behavior in the dental office can be challenging for both the dental staff and parents. All children go through the same developmental stages, but the range of ages at which each occurs is fairly broad. One child at two and a half may separate easily from the parent and adjust readily…
Bonding
In ectodermal dysplasias with small, misshapen and missing teeth, bonding provides a painless, less expensive method of reshaping and replacing individual teeth that requires little or no cutting away of tooth structure. In this article, read what bonding is, the different types and the benefits.
Adolescent Dental Concerns
Watch this one-hour webinar that we hosted with Lisa Knobloch, D.D.S., M.S. as she addresses dental issues caused by ectodermal dysplasias. When should dental treatment begin? What is bonding? Does my child need both lower and upper dentures? Dr. Knobloch will answer these questions and share information about other adolescent dental concerns. Dr. Knobloch is an Associate…
Webinar: Dental Implants
In this webinar, Clark M. Stanford, D.D.S., Ph.D. discusses dental implants for individuals affected by ectodermal dysplasia with compromised bone quality and/or quantity. Dr. Stanford is a Distinguished Professor and Dean at The University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Dentistry in Chicago, Illinois. He’s the chair of our Scientific Advisory Council. We consider him to…