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Elemental Dental care

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The traveling holistic hygiene

office of Colette Fontaine

RDHAP

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Member of the California

Dental Hygiene Association

The traveling holistic hygiene office of Colette Fontaine
 RDHAP #949
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The traveling holistic hygiene office ​of Colette Fontaine

RDHAP

Elemental Dental Care is dedicated to helping reduce hygiene health disparities in California

Elemental Dental Care is dedicated to helping reduce hygiene health disparities in California

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Are you or a loved one struggling to maintain activities of daily living (ADLs)?
Are you or a loved one struggling to maintain activities of daily living (ADLs)?
Are you or a loved one struggling to maintain activities of daily living (ADLs)?

Are you or a loved one struggling to maintain activities of daily living (ADLs)? We can help you

We will help you

Elemental Dental care

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Preventative services

  • Periodontal evaluations
  • Oral cancer screenings
  • Routine cleanings
  • Preventative sealant placement
  • Fluoride treatments
  • Oral Hygiene Instructions

Therapeutic services

  • Deep cleanings
  • Periodontal maintenance cleanings
  • Therapeutic temporary fillings (ITRs)
  • Bacterial testing
  • Customized oral hygiene instructions and nutritional counseling
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Delivering quality hygiene healthcare to people, where they live

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Our goal is to help meet a nationwide dental

health objective

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...Foster impact through public and private efforts to improve health and wellbeing for people of all ages and the communities in which they live.

-Healthy People initiative of 2030

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  • Healthy People 2030 Objective

– Increase the proportion of children and

adolescents aged 3 to 19 who have

received dental sealants on one or more

of their primary or permanent molar

teeth

  • California Oral Health Plan Objective:

– By 2025, increase from 27.6% to 33.1%

among 6-9 year old children

According to the California Dental Association, Medi-Cal

currently provides dental coverage to roughly 15 million

low-income Californians (1/3 of all residents and half of all children)

Elemental Dental Care

Services & *Fees

*Fees may be subject to change depending on location & travel expense

*Eligible Medi-Cal Dental beneficiaries are 100% covered for routine dental hygiene care, subject to verification at time of service

Interim Therapeutic Restorations (ITRs)

& Sealants

New Patient

Appointment

Deep Cleaning

Teeth Cleaning

Denture Cleaning

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New patient appointment fee
routine cleaning fee
one quadrant of deep cleaning fee

$125

per quadrant

Temporary filling fee

$100-200

per tooth

$175

$375

$300

Awareness

Desire

Knowledge

Ability

Reinforcement

  • Medical and dental history review
  • Periodontal evaluation & assessment
  • Oral cancer screening
  • Routine cleaning
  • Fluoride treatment
  • Oral hygiene Instructions
  • Routine cleaning (scaling, flossing, polishing)
  • Periodontal maintenance cleaning (scaling, flossing, irrigation, polishing)
  • Fluoride treatment
  • Oral hygiene Instructions


  • Root scaling & tissue debridement
  • Extensive periodontal evaluation
  • Subgingival irrigation
  • Oral hygiene Instructions
  • Nutritional counseling
  • Bacterial testing (as needed)
  • Soft tissue management
  • Denture cleaning
  • Oral cancer screening
  • Denture hygiene Instructions
  • Identification & documentation of cavitation lesion(s)
  • Virtual evaluation of problem area by a licensed Dentist
  • Bacterial reduction of cavitation
  • Placement of temporary filling
  • Placement of preventative sealant

Payment Options

Fee-for-Service

  • Self-Paid
  • Pay at time of service (Visa, Mastercard, ​Discover, Check or Cash)
  • HSA & FSA account payments are accepted
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Medi-Cal dental insurance

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  • Provide us your Medi-Cal benefit ID ​number & Issue date
  • We verify your active coverage
  • We do the billing
  • No upfront costs for basic preventive care
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Private dental insurance

  • Provide your insurance company name, ​Benefit ID number and billing address
  • Pay at time of service (Visa, Mastercard, ​Discover, Check or Cash)
  • HSA & FSA account payments are ​accepted
  • We verify your active coverage
  • We do the billing
  • You receive the insurance reimbursement ​payment directly after claim is submitted
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Hello

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Colette started this journey at Foothill College in 1999 when she was accepted into the dental assisting program directly following her high school graduation. As a child, she was always drawn to the medical field, performing treatments on her dolls, intending to take care of all of their health needs. Colette found her calling at a very young age.


She enjoys dentistry so much because of the promise it provides of endless learning and an opportunity to educate and heal others. She seeks and finds joy in identifying each clients' set of unique needs. Even after 24 years in the field, Colette embraces the daily challenge of rising to each occasion aimed at delivering exemplary care to all of her clients.


In 2021, she decided to get back to her studies. She applied to the University of the Pacific to obtain additional training for dental management of the medically compromised client. In 2022, she became a Registered Dental Hygienist in Alternative Practice, obtaining her third California

state license.


Colette is very happy to carry out her longtime career goal to serve, educate and to improve oral health awareness among the elderly, homebound and underrepresented populations in California.


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Why It Matters

Caring for others with physical limitations was modeled early on in life for Colette. She grew up watching her mother navigate the limitations of society and the healthcare system for a very dear, chronically ill family member, Cousin Bob.


Cousin Bob contracted polio at the age of four. He had limited mobility of the right side of his body and depended on other people for much of his life to help him with necessary activities of daily living given his severe disabilities.


He spent the last twenty years of his life at Seton Medical Center on a ventilator. Over those twenty years, he was unable to safely leave the premises, which caused his dental condition to suffer greatly as a result.


Colette and her mother were frequent visitors and caregivers to Bob, and this is where her mobile dental hygiene dream began.


She always knew that if her journey allowed her to become a dental hygienist that she would have to find a way to reach other medically compromised individuals, who like Bob, had no option to seek outside dental care.


Cousin Bob is no longer with us, but his life and legacy continues to live through Colette’s dental hygiene pursuits.

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Cousin Bobs Poem

Find mirth in dearth and dross, soldier on

As a quiet, faithful mole in a soiled world,

Sail on through time enjoying its unfolding

Through history’s reformulation of struggle,

Above all, be broad of thought, generous

And quick to discern the way you should go.

Bob Hackney

Scholar, poet, a man of courage

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Elemental Dental care

The traveling holistic hygiene office

of Colette Fontaine, RDHAP #949

San Mateo, CA

Colette@elementaldentalcare.com

650.264.9164

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