A Helping Hand through the Denture Journey™
Today’s denture patients are younger and more active than ever before. For people used to a busy lifestyle and enjoying the foods of a health-conscious diet, the transition to life with dentures can pose significant challenges.
Eating, talking, and continuing to maintain proper oral care can all represent serious changes in patients’ everyday lives. Adjusting to these once-simple daily processes can cause your patients frustration with even the best-fitting dentures, affecting them physically, socially and psychologically—and even shaping their views about the quality of their oral care.
So, as a dental professional, how can you:
- Prepare new denture patients for the journey ahead and support them beyond your office doors?
- Quickly understand their perceptions about dentures and set their expectations for the way their dentures will look, feel and affect them?
- Teach them the techniques that help make speaking with dentures easier and more comfortable, make eating favorite foods possible, make discussing their dentures easier, and allow them to continue to experience the things in life they love—with less anxiety and frustration?
- Improve patient satisfaction, and ensure your patients are living well with dentures?
You prepare your patients with PoliCare.
PoliCare is a free patient program specifically-designed to support dental professionals and their patients by increasing denture success and patient satisfaction.
PoliCare offers the tools, techniques, and educational information that new denture and partial wearers need to ease the emotional and psychological challenges associated with living with dentures... And help patients know that in the journey of life with dentures,
they are not alone.
PoliCare’s unique combination of products and information helps manage patient expectations, guides the transition to wearing dentures, and answers the questions that reassure and empower. So with your expertise, and our useful tips and ongoing support, your patients have a real helping hand through the denture journey.
How to Participate
How do you participate in PoliCare, and help increase your patient’s satisfaction with their dentures? It’s easy and it’s free!
Simply sign up here on our web site.
We’ll provide the support that guides your patients on the journey to life with dentures. You provide the in-office expertise. Working together, the PoliCare program gives your first-time full-denture and partial wearers the extra care they need to discover denture success—while still allowing you to keep pace with your already-busy schedule.
Support Smart Denture Care from the Start
When you sign up for the PoliCare program, we’ll send you a supply of 12 free PoliCare Complete Care for Dentures kits. These offer your patients everything they’ll need to start taking care of their new dentures right away, and includes:
- Polident® Overnight Whitening Tablets
- Super PoliGrip® Denture Adhesive Cream
- Super PoliGrip® Comfort Seal Strips® Denture Adhesive
- Dental Brush
- Denture Bath
- Patient Education DVD and brochure with valuable money-saving coupons
And as a member of the program, future orders of PoliCare Complete Care for Dentures kits can be done online right through this web site. So patients will enjoy the support of PoliCare, while you enjoy the convenient ordering.
Prepare the Path with Education and Improved Understanding
The PoliCare program also gives you the educational materials you need to better prepare patients for the emotional and lifestyle changes that come with life with dentures. When you sign up, you will receive the following:
- Posters—including “Ten Things You Should Know About Your New Dentures,” and a “Join PoliCare” informational poster, perfect for office display
- Booklet and display—This take-home aid has been designed help your patients understand the complete denture and partial process, the care and maintenance regimen, and how to live life to the fullest.
- Care Option Tearpad—Are dentures or partials an appropriate option for your patient? Give them the information they need with the Care Option Tearpad. This useful piece makes it easy for you to show prospective denture or partial patients the labor and costs of the various dental options that are available. This is comparison made easy.
- Managing Patient Expectations Self-Assessment Quiz Tearpad—This convenient hard-copy quiz helps both you and your patients first understand, and then effectively manage, denture and partial expectations.
- Employee buttons—These eye-catching buttons encourage patients to talk about getting dentures and the best ways to care for them.
Continue the Journey with Online Support
Another element of the PoliCare program is the MyPoliCare.com web site. This new online resource and community is the place where new denture and partial wearers find the latest information, tips, advice, special offers, savings and more—and where they can discover how others have adjusted to life with dentures.
Professionals continue the PoliCare journey through Dental-Professional.com, the regular check up for the latest in oral care. With current professional research on important oral health topics, customizable patient education handouts, sample ordering and a regular e-newsletter, Dental-Professional.com is a resource professionals turn to for their practice needs.