About TOO
Facilitated dental care to victims of torture and abuse and people with severe anxiety about dental treatment (odontophobia).
What is the TOO offer?
The TOO offering is an interdisciplinary psychology and dental health offering. Those who meet the criteria will first receive anxiety treatment or other psychological treatment. Then they are offered the necessary dental care according to Good Clinical Practice in Dental Health Care (IS-1589).
Multidisciplinary treatment teams TOO consists of a psychologist, dentist and other dental health professionals. Both the psychological treatment and the dental treatment in Multidisciplinary Treatment Teams TOO are free of charge. The competence centres of the dental service have a central professional role.
When patients are able to receive dental treatment, they are transferred/referred to Dentist Team TOO which can be teams of county municipal employees or privately practicing dentists with whom the county municipality has signed a written agreement.
Dentist teams must be part of a comprehensive, tailored offer to the patients concerned, and have special expertise to look after the patient group.
The offer should be developed into a coherent treatment chain where the dental service ensures that the patient receives the right treatment at the right time.
Who is covered by the offer?
- People who have been subjected to torture.
- Persons who have been victims of abuse of a sexual nature or domestic violence.
- People suffering from odontophobia.
Each of the conditions is independent terms, and in addition, it is assumed that the patient
- have significant difficulties receiving dental treatment due to anxiety in the dental treatment situation
- have a separate desire for psychological treatment for their lack of coping or anxiety in connection with the dental treatment situation
- have the ability to make use of the treatment methodology and/or the adapted dentistry;
After a conversation with a psychologist and subsequent diagnostic interview/screening, it will be clear whether the patient meets the criteria to be included in the offer. Patients receive free treatment as long as they are covered by the offer.
For children and young people and others with rights under the Dental Services Act, the TOO offer is covered by the county municipality. Specialists in pedodontics are expected to be involved in the provision for children and young people.
Refugees and asylum seekers who are not deployed in a municipality are not covered by the offer.
How to access the offer?
- Persons over the age of 18 can contact the county dentist or chief dentist in their county/district, or with the dental health service's competence center in the region.
- Physicians, psychologists and other healthcare professionals who come into contact with patients who have been subjected to torture, abuse or who may have odontophobia can refer to the Center of Expertise or to a local Multidisciplinary Treatment Team TOO.
- Read more about Too Offer, and where to find Too deals in your county.
Key Collaborators
- Regional Resource Centers on Violence, Traumatic Stress and Suicide Prevention (RVTS)
- Centers Against Incest and Sexual Assault, et al.
- District Psychiatric Centers (DPS)
- Psychologists, GPs and other healthcare professionals
- Universities and other relevant academic communities
