Welcome to Our Practice!

Covid-19

Dear Patient:

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 as you know.  Our infection control processes are designed so that when you receive care, it’s both safe and comfortable. We want to tell you about 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.

Extensive measures have been taken to assure the air quality is safe for patients and staff.

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 our office.

*** We will ask you to take your temperature before coming. We will again take a temperature reading and a pulse oximeter reading when you arrive. 

***There is hand sanitizer that we will ask you to use when you enter the building. You will also find some in the reception area and other places in the office for you to use as needed.

***We have installed Medify Air Purifiers in all rooms.

***We are installing an extra-oral air suction machine to reduce aerosol spray shortly.

***You may see that our waiting lobby will no longer offer magazines, brochures and so forth, since those items are difficult to clean and disinfect.

***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. Please call our office before coming and we will let you know that we are on schedule for you to keep your wait time to a minimum.

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 202-332-3600.

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 Loewinger, Dr Madison and the best dental office team.