Notice of Privacy Practices

Effective Date: June 7, 2026 | Required by 45 C.F.R. § 164.520

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.

1. Our Commitment to Your Privacy

Family Dental Center of Connecticut (also operating as Family Dental of Connecticut) (“we,” “our,” or “the Practice”) is required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information (PHI), to provide you with this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the terms of the Notice currently in effect. PHI is information that identifies you and relates to your past, present, or future health, dental treatment, or payment for care. This Notice applies to all of our locations and all members of our workforce.

2. How We May Use and Disclose Your Health Information

Treatment

We use and disclose your PHI to provide, coordinate, and manage your dental care — for example, sharing records or radiographs with a specialist, laboratory, or another provider involved in your treatment.

Payment

We use and disclose your PHI to obtain payment for the services we provide, including billing, claims submission, benefit verification and collection activities.

Health Care Operations

We use and disclose your PHI for our business operations, including quality assessment, staff training and administrative activities.

Other permitted uses and disclosures

Appointment reminders, treatment alternatives, and health-related benefits or services.
Communication with family or others involved in your care, when you agree or do not object, or in an emergency.
Purposes required by law, public health activities, health oversight, and reporting of abuse or neglect.
Judicial and administrative proceedings, law enforcement, coroners, and to avert a serious threat to health or safety.
Workers’ compensation, specialized government functions, and research as permitted by law.

3. Uses and Disclosures Requiring Your Written Authorization

Most uses and disclosures not described above will be made only with your written authorization, including any sale of PHI, most marketing communications, and (if applicable) psychotherapy notes. You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time, except to the extent we have already acted in reliance on it.

4. Your Rights Regarding Your Health Information

Right to inspect and obtain a copy (45 C.F.R. § 164.524): You may inspect and obtain a copy of your records.
Right to request an amendment of your PHI if you believe it is incorrect or incomplete.
Right to an accounting of disclosures of your PHI.
Right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures, including a restriction on disclosure to a health plan where you have paid out of pocket in full, when not otherwise required by law.
Right to request confidential communications in a certain way or at a certain location.
Right to a paper copy of this Notice, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.
Right to be notified of a breach of your unsecured PHI.

5. Our Responsibilities

We are required to maintain the privacy and security of your PHI, to notify you following a breach of unsecured PHI, to abide by the terms of the Notice currently in effect, and not to use or disclose your PHI other than as described here or as permitted by law.

6. Changes to This Notice

We reserve the right to change this Notice and to make the revised Notice effective for PHI we already have as well as information we receive in the future. The current Notice will be posted in our offices and on our website, and will show its effective date.

7. Complaints

If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with the Practice (see Section 8) or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.

8. Contact

Family Dental Center of Connecticut
365 Maple Street, Wethersfield, CT 06109
860-430-4388

150 Hazard Avenue, Unit C3, Enfield, CT 06082
860-430-4388 (direct 860-763-5522)

See also our Privacy Policy (website data) and SMS Terms & Conditions (text messaging).