Smile!!! A new service is coming to VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital. On Monday, November 26, 2018, the CMH Family Dental Clinic will open its doors and begin a new era for VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital.

Headed by Dr. Natasha Grover, the six-operatory Dental Clinic will provide a wide range of dental services to area residents. The Dental Clinic is accepting new patients now. Patients may call 434-584-5590 to schedule an appointment. The Clinic is housed in the new C.A.R.E. Building at 1755 North Mecklenburg Avenue in South Hill. There is a separate entrance to the CMH Family Dental Clinic located on the north side of the C.A.R.E. Building.

Among the services offered at the clinic are exams, cleanings, fillings, x-rays, dentures, root canals, bridges, endodontics, extractions, pediatric and cosmetic dentistry and dental surgery featuring faculty and residents from the VCU School of Dentistry.

Dr. Grover has 15 years of dental experience. She is a graduate of VCU School of Dentistry and spent the past year at a dental clinic in Danville.

“We are excited to be working with the VCU School of Dentistry to bring this new family dentistry practice to VCU Health CMH to help fill the provider gap caused by the recent retirement of some dentists in our service area.  We recognize the valuable services the existing community dentists have been providing in this region for decades and hope to develop strong collegial working relationships with them all,” said W. Scott Burnette, CEO, VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital.

The new six-operatory CMH Family Dental Clinic was made possible, in part, by a $235,000 grant from the Virginia Health Care Foundation. That grant helped equip the clinic. The grant money was used to purchase a 3-D imaging system, a microscope used for a variety of dental services and two complete operatories in the clinic.

The Virginia Health Care Foundation awarded the grant to VCU Health CMH because the CMH Family Dental Clinic will be serving, in part, an at-risk patient population. The Clinic will participate in Medicaid’s Smiles For Children Program and will also see patients who qualify for CMH’s indigent and charity care programs.

“VCU Health CMH’s new Family Dental Clinic will bring greatly needed and affordable access to dental and oral health services to this part of Virginia, which is a Dental Professional Shortage Area. This is at the heart of our mission and we are delighted to be a partner in this exciting endeavor,” said Deborah D. Oswalt, Executive Director, Virginia Health Care Foundation.

Additional support was provided by donations from Microsoft, Mid-Atlantic Broadband and Dominion Energy.

A wide variety of dental insurances will be accepted at the CMH Family Dental Clinic, according to Dr. Grover.

“We are accepting all of the most popular dental insurances – Delta Dental, Cigna, Aetna, DentaQuest, MetLife, Anthem, United Concordia, United Healthcare and Interactive Medical Systems to name a few,” Dr. Grover said. “But we encourage our patients to call ahead to make sure we accept their dental insurance to be sure.”

Dr. Grover is a general dentist, but she has a special interest in dentistry for children, as well as root canals and difficult extractions.

“I want people to know I can treat the entire family,” she said.  “From your baby’s first tooth, to your child’s fillings, to whitening your teeth and giving you a nice smile to helping your parents hold on to their teeth for as long as they can.”

Dr. Grover explains her approach to dentistry as a team effort. A team that includes the patient as part of the decision making process.

“I want the patient to know they will always stay in control of their treatment plan and they make the decisions,” she said. “We don’t want anyone to experience pain and we want them to have comfortable visits so they can change their dental story to one full of successes.”

Dr. Grover further explained, “I don’t practice dentistry as a job. I practice dentistry like it is a team activity and the patient is the star. I empathize with anybody who has had a bad dental experience and my team and I will work tirelessly to turn that feeling around.”

Natasha Grover, DDS