As coronavirus (COVID-19) keeps millions of adults and children at home, federal health officials have urgently promoted telehealth as a way to connect Medicare and Medicaid patients with the care they need. Officials recognized that services provided through telehealth would help to free up medical clinics and hospital emergency department (EDs) for patients with COVID-19 or other truly urgent conditions while at the same time enabling seniors, the medically-compromised and other vulnerable populations to remain safely at home. In a crisis, dental providers can use telehealth to consult with patients, triage their needs, and offer limited urgent services, deterring those with serious dental conditions from seeking care in EDs. This pandemic gives states a unique opportunity to build a more accessible and connected system that is sustainable even after the immediate crisis subsides. Teledentistry can connect patients and providers in different physical locations, as well as enable different providers who treat the same patients to share information. Teledentistry is the provision of patient care or education using one of four forms of technology: synchronous, asynchronous, remote patient monitoring, and mHealth. (For more details, read the new white paper by the DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Health Advancement.)