COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 UPDATE

NEW PROTOCOL FOR IN-OFFICE VISITS

Our priority remains the safety of our team, our patients, and our community. Therefore, a special protocol will be in place in our office over the coming weeks to minimize the risk of unknowingly transferring COVID-19 to our team, other patients, and our family members. It will be as follows:

  1. Once you arrive for an appointment, please call us to check-in and wait in your car.

  2. We will come to the door to escort you inside to the dental chair. Please be prepared to have your temperature taken and sign a questionnaire about your current health status. Please avoid touching doorknobs, faucet handles, etc. during your visit.

  3. ALL family and friends that have come with you today MUST wait in the car. Only one parent is allowed to come in with a minor, but the parent must stand in the room with the patient at all times.

Each CFD team member and patient must self-assess their health daily before coming into the dental office. They should say “No” to all the following questions:

  • Fever > 100.40 °F

  • Cough

  • Sore throat

  • Shortness of breath

  • Flu-like symptoms

  • Close personal contact (without PPE) with a suspected or laboratory- confirmed COVID-19 patient in the past 2 weeks

  • International travel history in the past 2 weeks. If “Yes”, was it to or from: China, Iran, Italy, Japan, or South Korea. If none of these countries, treat answer as “No”.

Emily CarterCarter Family Dentistry