Delivering Oral Care for the Home Bound
Ensure your elderly or home bound patient is comfortable,
can eat, swallow, and feel good about smiling.
Delivering Oral Care for the Home Bound
Ensure your elderly or home bound patient is comfortable,
can eat, swallow, and feel good about smiling.
Join the ranks of house call dentists across the nation who provide dental care when, where and how it meets the individual patient’s needs.
Join the ranks of house call dentists across the nation who provide dental care when, where and how it meets the individual patient’s needs.
Provide convenient, safe, mobile dental care for patients in the comfort of their home environments.
General dentist, national speaker, and house call dentist, Dr. Joy Poskozim, guides dental professionals thru establishing and integrating house call dentistry into their practices. With 20+ years’ experience in an integrative health general dentistry private practice, draw from Dr. Joy’s experience performing dental procedures on the home-bound for over a decade.
Ask about Dr. Joy's customized coaching solutions:
Dentist to Dentist
Dentist to Team
Full or Partial Day In Office or Virtual
Provide convenient, safe, mobile dental care for patients in the comfort of their home environments.
General dentist, national speaker, and house call dentist, Dr. Joy Poskozim, guides dental professionals thru establishing and integrating house call dentistry into their practices. With 20+ years’ experience in an integrative health general dentistry private practice, draw from Dr. Joy’s experience performing dental procedures on the home-bound for over a decade.
Ask about Dr. Joy's customized coaching solutions:
Dentist to Dentist
Dentist to Team
Full or Partial Day In Office or Virtual
Why Work With Dr. Joy?
- Discover the flexibility of virtual technology (teledentistry) in conducting remote, problem-focused evaluations
- Develop enhanced communication techniques to increase patient cooperation
- Keep the essential records and documentation in the patient’s record
- Recognize the early signs of dementia versus manifestations of normal aging
- Identify the various types of dementia, how each type physically manifests, and the associated oral hygiene care challenges and oral health issues
- Understand the bidirectional relationship between periodontal disease and Alzheimer’s disease
- Recognize the pharmacologic treatment and cognitive enhancers approved for Alzheimer disease and drugs that can make dementia worse
- Recognize the roles and responsibilities of the emergency contact, custodial parent, and joint custody, and their legal authority to act on the patient’s behalf
- Grasp the legal differences between emergency contacts, durable and general powers of attorney
- Gain strategies for working in partnership with referring dentists, primary care physicians, caregivers and families to determine the best treatment for each patient
Why Work With Dr. Joy?
- Discover the flexibility of virtual technology (teledentistry) in conducting remote, problem-focused evaluations
- Develop enhanced communication techniques to increase patient cooperation
- Keep the essential records and documentation in the patient’s record
- Recognize the early signs of dementia versus manifestations of normal aging
- Identify the various types of dementia, how each type physically manifests, and the associated oral hygiene care challenges and oral health issues
- Understand the bidirectional relationship between periodontal disease and Alzheimer’s disease
- Recognize the pharmacologic treatment and cognitive enhancers approved for Alzheimer disease and drugs that can make dementia worse
- Recognize the roles and responsibilities of the emergency contact, custodial parent, and joint custody, and their legal authority to act on the patient’s behalf
- Grasp the legal differences between emergency contacts, durable and general powers of attorney
- Gain strategies for working in partnership with referring dentists, primary care physicians, caregivers and families to determine the best treatment for each patient
Joy’s true passion is being an advocate for the geriatric population.
Through geriatric house call dentistry, clinicians provide dental care when, where and how it meets the individual patient’s needs.
Joy V. Poskozim DDS FSCDA, a general dentist and national speaker teaches dental and medical audiences what they need to know and what they need to do to provide mobile dental care to patients in the comfort of their home environments. Joy’s true passion is being an advocate for the geriatric population. She is the dental director for several nursing care facilities as well as a house call dentist. She has been in private practice for over 20 years, practicing integrative health general dentistry at her office on the northwest side of Chicago, and has been performing dental procedures on the home-bound for 10 years. Through this experience Dr. Poskozim has earned her Fellowship with the Special Care Dental Association Geriatric Council.
Joy has been treating senior community residents in the comfort of their own rooms for over ten years.
During this time, not only has she been making house calls across Chicagoland, but also educating certified nursing assistants, caregivers, nurses, and administrators. Dr. Poskozim has written extensively on the subject of geriatric house call dentistry. Joy is a 1990 graduate of Marquette University, and New York University College of Dentistry in 1994. She completed a GPR from Woodhull Medical Center in 2000 where she was awarded Resident of the Year.
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