We hope this letter finds you and your family in good health. Our community has been through a lot over the last few months, and all of us are looking forward to resuming our normal habits and routines. While many things have changed, one thing has remained the same: our commitment to your safety.
Infection control has always been a top priority for our practice and you may have seen this during your visits to our office. Our infection control processes are made so that when you receive care, it’s both safe and comfortable. We would like to inform you of the infection control procedures we follow in our practice to keep patients and staff safe.
Our office follows infection control recommendations made by the American Dental Association (ADA), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). We follow the activities of these agencies so that we are up-to-date on any new rulings or guidance that may be issued.
You may see some changes when it is time for your next appointment. We made these changes to help protect our patients and staff. For example:
- Our office will communicate with you beforehand to ask some screening questions. You’ll be asked those same questions again when you are in the office.
- We require a mask to be worn by ALL patients upon entering the office.
- We will record temperature of every patient upon entering the office.
- We have hand sanitizer that we will ask you to use when you enter the office. You will also find some in the reception area and other places in the office for you to use as needed.
- We installed sneeze guards or droplet barriers at all reception areas.
- You may see that our waiting room will no longer offer magazines, children’s toys and so forth, since those items are difficult to clean and disinfect.
- We introduced an oral pre rinse by all patients to reduce exposure to germs.
- We implemented enhanced operatory disinfection procedures of all surfaces between patients.
- There will be ambient air management with HEPA 13 air filtration continuously in treatment rooms and common areas to remove germs from circulating air.
- Appointments will be managed to allow for social distancing between patients.
- We will do our best to allow greater time between patients to reduce waiting times for you, as well as to reduce the number of patients in the reception area at any one time.
We look forward to seeing you again and are happy to answer any questions you may have about the steps we take to keep you, and every patient, safe in our practice. To make an appointment, please call our office at 1(408) 528 - 8303 or visit our website at www.evdentaloffice.com.
Thank you for being our patient. We value your trust and loyalty and look forward to welcoming back our patients, neighbors and friends.
Sincerely,
Dr. Shobha Parikh and Team
Everyone deserves a great smile! Our friendly staff will provide you with positive and professional dental care. We are dedicated to providing you and your family with the most technologically advanced dentistry available.
We wish to ensure that you are as comfortable as possible during your visit with us. Our flexible schedule allows you to make appointments that are convenient for you.
For your health and safety we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in sterilization and infection control.
Dr. Parikh is highly trained in the latest technologies in delivering comfortable and convenient dentistry to you.
Our state of the art Intra-oral camera/monitor allows you to view your dental procedure. Our facilities such as Gentle Ultrasonic Cleaning, latest sterilization, clean water system that uses distilled room temperature water in all of the sprayers and squirters for the mouth, Digital X-ray which has 90% less radiation, Nitrous oxide (laughing gas), Stereo headphones and Autoclaved hand piece will make your visit as comfortable as possible.
Interest free payment plans available (on approval of credit). Most insurance plans accepted including Medi-Cal Dental.
