Privacy Statement

Protecting your privacy is important to us. We value the trust you place in our hands when you supply us with your personal information. We want you to understand how we protect the confidentiality of that information as well as how and why we use and disclose it. This statement explains our practices and procedures for protecting the security of your personal information both while you are a patient and thereafter.

We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

• Information you provide on patient forms

• Other dental or medical facilities

• Medical insurance carriers as permitted or required by law.

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our patients or former patients to anyone, except as permitted by law. Go to Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) to learn more health care privacy rights.

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information. We limit access to your nonpublic personal information to our staff, your insurance carrier, and on occasion other dental or medical professionals who need to know such information to provide services to you.