 Hello everybody, my name is Andrea and what is a mobile dental hygienist? So you have clicked this video because you're probably wondering, I've never heard of this, what exactly do you do? So I am a licensed, I am a registered dental hygienist where I come to your home and do everything that a dental hygienist would do in the office but I do it inside your home. So teeth cleanings, teeth waning, dental hygiene cavity checks, dental hygiene exams, counting teeth for your two-year-old who's excited for their first dental hygiene checkup, I do all of those things. So I come in and bring everything I need and believe it or not, it's not too much. It takes me maybe 15 minutes to set everything up and then about 15 minutes to tear everything down at the end and disinfect everything and pack up everything in my car where I have a sterilization area in my home with a full-blown sterilizer to fully sterilize everything. That's a common question that a lot of people ask me is well how do you sterilize instruments if you don't have your own dental office? I have like a mini dental office lab in my own home so I do all of that in my home when I go back home. So basically what I do is I come in and I set up somewhere on your main level so if you want me to set up in your living room so you can watch TV or wherever I just set everything up. So I bring in a patient chair for you to lay down in. I have a side table. I have my mobile compressor unit that has the air, the water, the suction, things you're used to being in a dental office but it's even better because you don't smell those dental office smells. You don't hear that dental office you know handpiece that people hate that noise. I do not use that. I set up my instruments, my polisher, toys for the kids. I have everything needed for your full dental hygiene appointment. It truly is amazing what we can do now these days and the nice thing is too after every treatment I can send everything through directly to the insurance for you so you don't have to submit anything. I do all of the hard work for you. You would only pay me the difference not owed by insurance at the time of your appointment and that is super easy. I accept credit cards, email transfer, cash, whatever you prefer. I've been a dental professional now for about 18 years. Time goes by really, really fast. Primarily in Ontario where I worked for the same office for about 12 years and then I did move a couple times, worked for a couple other offices but I have had my own mobile dental hygiene practice, my own practice since 2018 where I moved from Ontario to Manitoba so Winnipeg more specifically and I can now see patients in Winnipeg and there's not as many dental hygienists in Winnipeg or in Manitoba as there is Ontario so being a mobile dental hygienist is definitely a new thing for Manitoba where most people haven't heard of it. You might see me drive around in my yellow SUV where there's a big sign on it saying mobile dental. I get stopped all the time even when I'm at a red light people roll down their windows they go, hey what's mobile dental so I thought this might help to explain everything for you. It is great for people who are nervous to go to the dentist. Some people truly do have extreme anxiety in going to a dental office so they do not go but then their mouth gets worse and let me also say I do not judge anybody. I don't care if it's been 10 years 20 years I don't even care if you've never had a teeth cleaning before you can always start somewhere and I truly am passionate and I want to help all of you guys maintain excellent oral health. It is possible it's never too late to start I promise and kids especially kids can get very nervous anxious they don't know what to expect in a dental office but I come right into your own home. Your children see me as more a friend of their mom and dads who's coming in to count their teeth. I do make it really really fun for children they love it. I have a stuffed animal they get toys stickers kids honestly love it and it is adorable sometimes they don't even want me to leave which is a great sign right plus I do have a cordless polisher so remember that polisher in a dental office that makes noise it's attached to a cord it's kind of awkward well I have a cordless one for kids and adults and people love it. Your teeth are so you know soft shiny clean afterwards you are really going to enjoy your dental hygiene visit. Sorry guys I'm getting over cold and I still have a cough I probably should have grabbed some water so I apologize about that but please let me know if you have any questions message me anytime I do mornings evenings weekends it's absolutely no problem I also like to be as flexible as possible so my goal is to make it as easy as possible for anybody to get their teeth cleaned and quite often one of the barriers to care as I mentioned before is you're just too nervous to go see a dentist or maybe you didn't like your last dental office because they were pushy taking too many x-rays or who knows what I do not take x-rays either so it's kind of a nice thing where you don't have to feel pushed or any of that so I do everything that a dental hygienist would do in an office but in your own home minus x-rays so I will bring that up too I cannot take x-rays in your home because it's not set up to have x-rays taken but if I feel you do need some then I do refer you back to your dental office easy if I feel like you need a root canal a tooth extraction then I just simply refer you back to your dental office easy me and your dentist work together so that you have the best treatment possible but in a lot of cases most people do just need regular teeth cleaning so I can see you every six months in your own home making it so much more convenient plus it is great for a large family for basically any family where you have kids if you go into the dental office you might have to wait after everybody's appointment you're at the dental office four hours later you're all finally done the nice thing about having a dental hygienist come in your own home is I see everybody in your own home so after I see mom she can then go off and do her own thing and I see a child and then while the other children are waiting for their teeth cleaning then they could be doing their homework or maybe helping clean the kitchen or doing something like that plus for husbands a lot of men don't like having their teeth cleaned or just you know I do get a lot of more I get a lot of moms wives saying can you please clean my husband's teeth he doesn't want to go to a dental office it does happen it's a lot more comfortable for everybody to have your teeth cleaned in your own home the last thing I'm going to mention is I do offer a treatment of if somebody has a cavity kids or adults you do not often have to use the high speed handpiece to drill a cavity I have something called silver diamond fluoride which is a cavity killing liquid so I put a liquid on that cavity to kill the cavity causing bacteria so you do not need to go to the dentist in most cases to get a filling imagine I do the same thing for my own teeth I haven't had a traditional dental filling since I was a child where that was the only option right so having that cavity killing liquid called silver diamond fluoride is amazing for children who don't want to sit there and get a needle a high speed handpiece to drill out the cavity often that cavity killing liquid is enough it takes two seconds I put on the liquid and done plus it's a lot cheaper than your traditional dental filling for one filling it's on average about three hundred dollars for silver diamond fluoride depending on the size of the cavity that needs to be fixed it it could be twenty five dollars to seventy five dollars for all the teeth that's not just one two that's any cavity you have but I talk about that more in another video definitely have a look but I hope this helps please let me know if you have any questions I am very happy to answer anything and I look forward to seeing you for your teeth cleaning appointment I see kids adults seniors I see anybody and I am truly happy to help so thank you guys so much for watching my name is Andrea and I look forward to meeting everybody very soon