Mobile Dental Hygiene

Mobile Dental Hygiene makes it easier to maintain your oral health without travelling to a traditional dental clinic. Home Comfort Hygienist brings professional dental hygiene services directly to your home, office, colony, facility, workplace, or organization.

Appointments are personalized according to each patient’s medical history, oral health, comfort level, mobility, and treatment needs. Services may include dental hygiene examinations, scaling, stain removal, polishing, fluoride, oral cancer screening, periodontal assessment, oral hygiene education, nutritional counselling, sealants, cavity arrest therapy, and X-rays when required.

When further dental assessment, diagnosis, or treatment is indicated, referrals to a dentist are provided.

What is included

Depending on the patient’s needs, a mobile dental hygiene appointment may include:

• Dental hygiene examination and assessment.

• Medical history review.

• Oral examination.

• Periodontal and gum-health assessment.

• Scaling.

• Scaling and root planing when indicated.

• Stain removal.

• Polishing.

• Intraoral X-rays when required.

• Fluoride application.

• Oral cancer screening.

• Sealants when appropriate.

• Silver diamine fluoride and cavity arrest therapy when appropriate.

• Oral hygiene education.

• Personalized home-care instruction.

• Nutritional counselling related to oral health.

• Treatment estimates and fee breakdowns.

• Referrals to a dentist when further care is indicated.

• Direct billing to most insurance providers when available.

The exact services provided depend on the patient’s assessment and clinical requirements.

Mobile dental hygiene pricing

The following pricing comparison is based on the Alberta 2026 fee guide and the proposed 20% discounted rate.

Adult — permanent dentition

Child — mixed dentition

Total savings per child: $111.88

Child — primary dentition

Total savings per child: $87.92

Important pricing information

The pricing tables show a comparison between the Alberta 2026 fee guide and the proposed 20% discounted rate. The discounted rate may apply to qualifying colony, group, family, or uninsured bookings, depending on the promotion or booking arrangement.

Final fees may vary based on:

• Patient age and dentition.

• Clinical assessment.

• Treatment time required.

• Scaling and periodontal needs.

• Whether X-rays are required.

• Additional services requested.

• Insurance coverage.

• Eligibility for a group or promotional rate.

• Travel distance.

A treatment estimate and fee breakdown are provided before treatment.

Insurance and direct billing

Home Comfort Hygienist provides direct billing to most insurance providers when available. Patients should confirm their individual coverage before treatment because insurance plans differ in eligible procedures, annual maximums, deductibles, and reimbursement levels.

Patients may be asked to provide insurance details through the digital intake process before their appointment.

Mobile travel fee

There is no mobile travel fee within a 30 km radius of Edmonton.

For locations beyond the 30 km radius:

Travel fee: $0.75 per kilometre.

For colonies, facilities, workplaces, and group bookings, Home Comfort Hygienist can provide an estimated travel fee before the appointment or clinical day is confirmed.

Who mobile dental hygiene is for

• Families.

• Seniors.

• Patients with mobility challenges.

• Patients who prefer in-home care.

• Colonies and rural communities.

• Long-term care and retirement facilities.

• Workplaces and organizations.

• Patients who have difficulty travelling to a traditional clinic.

• Groups wanting several appointments at one location.