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Home Dentist Visits in San Francisco, Bay Area

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Home dentist visits might sound like a luxury, and for some patients they are. But for many patients, a house-call dentist means access to good dental health, which would otherwise be unavailable.

Some people find it difficult to sit in a dentist’s chair. Others cannot travel to a dental office due to limited mobility. Dental visits can be stressful for the healthiest patients, but for those struggling with chronic issues and medical conditions, a simple trip across town, a strange environment, and unfamiliar faces can be impossible to cope with.

Home dentist visits provide a comfortable solution for patients who are best cared for in their own homes, especially seniors, patients with special needs, people struggling with dental anxiety, and individuals with moderate to severe medical conditions and disorders.

Home Dentist Visits

House Call Dentist is a division of the Blende Dental Group, a dental practice in San Francisco, which has treated patients with special needs, disabilities, medical conditions, and anxiety for over 20 years.

The Blende Dental Group still sees patients in their offices but now they also visit patients at home.

Dr. Blende is dedicated to patients with physical, emotional, or cognitive challenges. Because home dentist visits bring better oral health to patients who have difficulties in a traditional dental office setting, House Call Dentist was a natural extension to the work Dr. Blende has done throughout his entire career.

Dr. Blende’s team of dental professionals is committed to bringing top-notch, compassionate dental care to patients, regardless of their age or infirmity. House Call Dentist treats patients at their own private homes and in residence facilities throughout San Francisco and Marin County.

Safety and Comfort at Home

Home dentist visits keeps seniors and special needs patients safe, healthy, and comfortable. House Call Dentist can conduct a number of treatments and procedures right in a patient’s home:

  • Exams, x-rays, and diagnoses
  • Consultations and treatment planning
  • Hygiene (professional cleanings), fluoride trays, and cancer screenings
  • Denture creation and adjustment, night guards
  • Sedation dentistry and basic restorations and extractions
  • Emergency dental care

The team has even been able to set up surgery in a patient’s home.

House Call Dentist works closely with family members, caregivers, facility personnel, and medical practitioners to make sure all patients have the best dental care possible. We are often referred patients by doctors and other dentist throughout the Bay Area.

The Blende Dental Group

The Blende Dental Group has been treating seniors and patients with special needs for over 20 years. Our team of San Francisco dentists is ready to take your questions and schedule an appointment or home dentist visit. Please call 1-800-575-3375 to learn more.

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If You Can’t Go to the Dentist, the Dentist Will Come to You

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

For most people, getting to the dentist’s office is not a big deal. It’s just a car, bus, or train ride away. But for some, getting to the dentist is a real challenge. People who are immobile, elderly, or coping with a serious disease or illness cannot easily get to a dentist’s office for a variety of reasons:

  • Lack of transportation
  • Physical disability
  • Illness
  • Hospitalized or homebound
  • Behavioral illness

So the dentist has to come to them.

Home Dentist

A home dentist visits patients in their homes or any other locations. People who are hospitalized, living in a nursing home or eldercare facility, and those who are homebound or immobile can all benefit from mobile dentistry.

For a few patients, a home dentist is simply a matter of comfort and convenience. Why go to the dentist for a routine cleaning when the dentist can treat you in the comfort of your own home?

Mobile dentistry is available for people of all circumstances.

Here at the Blende Dental Group, we provide mobile dentistry as an extension to our work with patients who have special needs. We’ve spent over 20 years working with special needs patients and have built our entire practice around providing dental health care to patients for whom dentist visits are difficult or even impossible. To do this, we’ve removed barriers and stepped past the limits of traditional dentistry.

Mobile Dental Units

Our mobile dental units are stocked with dental equipment and medication. A highly trained team of dental professionals will visit the patient at his or her location. In this manner, we can provide a wide range of dental treatments.

Mobile dentistry services include a full exam with digital photos and x-rays, followed by a consultation in which we’ll put together a treatment plan for our patient. We provide onsite hygiene treatments: professional cleanings, in-depth oral cancer screenings, fluoride treatments, and hygiene instruction in which we show our patients how to best care for their teeth and gums.

In addition to these basic services, we can also perform various treatments and procedures for more serious dental problems:

  • Restorations and extractions
  • Dentures (full or partial) and adjustments
  • Custom nightguards and teeth whitening

Our dental team is renowned for its work in sleep and sedation dentistry. To ensure that our patients are relaxed, comfortable, and remain pain-free throughout all treatments, we can provide sedation via our home dentist services.

Bay Area House Call Dentists

The Blende Dental Group’s home dentist division, Bay Area House Call Dentists, serves a wide geographical area, including San Francisco, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Contra Costa, Alameda and San Mateo counties.

We are fully committed to serving any patients who require onsite dental care for any reason. Our goal is for all people to have access to quality dental care and healthy, beautiful teeth and gums.


Bay Area House Call Dentists is a division of the Blende Dental Group that provides mobile dentist services. To speak to a patient care coordinator or to schedule an appointment, call 1-800-575-3375 or visit our contact page to send us a message.


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Mobile Dentist for Special Needs Patients in the Bay Area


Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

There are many reasons that people avoid going to the dentist. They are too busy, it will be too expensive, the kids’ dental needs come first. But taking care of your teeth and gums is essential to good health, and taking care of your health should always be a priority.

There’s another reason that people don’t see the dentist. They want to make the appointment. It’s high on their priority list. They’re serious about taking care of their teeth and overall health. But they physically cannot get to the dentist’s office.

Patients who are immobile due to age, illness, or lack of transportation are at a disadvantage when it comes to taking care of their most basic needs – from grocery shopping to seeing a dentist. That’s where a special needs dentist — and more importantly, a mobile dentist — comes in.

Mobile Dentist

In some cases, dental care for immobile patients is critical, since people with limited mobility often have other health issues that can be compromised or made worse by poor oral hygiene.

It is exactly for patients such as these that Blende Dental Group created our mobile dentist unit. Our mobile dentistry patients include people who are confined to wheelchairs, patients in nursing homes, and patients who have medical conditions that restrict them to their homes because getting into a car is simply not possible.

Some of our mobile dentistry patients are struggling with diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, which makes it impossible for them to cooperate. Some cannot travel due to obesity or illnesses that prevent them from leaving their homes or the hospital. Others have such severe dental phobia that they simply cannot bring themselves to walk into a dentist office.

Making House Calls

Do you remember when doctors made house calls? They picked up their black bags and traveled around town, taking care of patients at home because many of those patients could not make it to an office for a visit. The traditional image of a doctor with his bag, ringing the doorbell in the dead of night, is one that many of us grew up with. This image has also been in countless movies and television shows.

But did you ever notice that the traveling doctor was never a dentist? After all, you can’t fit an x-ray machine in a doctor’s satchel.

Now, things are different. Modern technology has provided the tools and resources needed to put dental services on wheels and bring those services to the patients who need them the most. Our mobile dentist visits patients at their locations. We travel to private homes, residential care communities, nursing facilities, and hospitals. The Blende Dental Group will go wherever our patients need us throughout the Bay Area.

Which Treatments and Procedures Can a Mobile Dentist Provide?

You might think that a mobile dentist would be limited to basic cleanings and filling cavities, but we can do much more. Some of our mobile dentistry services include the following:

  • Oral health examinations to evaluate dental needs, periodontal disease, oral cancer, infection, dental abscess, denture fit, and xerostomia
  • Digital x-rays that can be viewed immediately
  • Digital intra-oral photographs
  • Basic cleanings
  • Standard dental procedures such as extractions, complete and partial dentures, denture relines, custom night guards, and fluoride trays.

A mobile dentist offers many advantages to special needs patients. Because we go to our patients, we can accommodate people who are bedridden or in a wheelchair. Patients with dental phobias can avoid the worst of their fears by never having to visit the dentist’s office at all. Their treatments are done in the comfort of their own homes.

We might not be able to fit our equipment into a black bag, but we are honored to continue a tradition of home healthcare by providing mobile dentistry throughout the Bay Area.


Bay Area House Call Dentists is a division of the Blende Dental Group that provides mobile dentist services. To speak to a patient care coordinator or to schedule an appointment, call 1-800-575-3375.


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