Mia is a health-tech company revolutionizing dental care. We bring general dentistry to your doorstep and make orthodontics affordable with Mia Aligners.
Mia’s mobile dental clinic sets up on your school grounds on a six-monthly rhythm, positioning your school as a modern, holistic provider of education and wellbeing. Consent-first, parent-approved, chaperoned care from HPCSA-registered female clinicians, with appointments booked in advance so learners leave class for just 30 minutes. Zero admin for the school, we run the digital bookings and all parent comms.
No learner is seen without explicit parent opt-in.
Booked in advance · back in class in half an hour.
HPCSA-registered · vetted · chaperoned care, always.
A short PDF for heads, bursars and parent-engagement leads: how consent works, the visit-day flow, safeguarding standards, the digital booking + parent comms system we run for you, and medical-aid billing. Sent within one business day.
Dental care for school-age children is a logistics problem before it’s a health problem. The appointment exists, somewhere across town, in school hours, requiring a parent to leave work. So it slips. Until it’s a toothache, and then it’s an emergency and a full day gone.
Dental practices work school hours. So every routine visit means a learner signed out mid-morning, a parent off work, a drive across town, a waiting room, and the trip back. Multiply by two or three children and two visits a year, and it’s no surprise the six-monthly check-up quietly becomes an eighteen-monthly one.
The fix is structural. Bring the dentist to the school, on a planned six-monthly rhythm, with parents opting in and staying informed at every step, and learners back at their desks in about twenty minutes.
~½ school day
Typical time cost of one routine off-site appointment, before counting the parent’s leave time.
Parents choosing a school today are choosing more than a curriculum, they’re choosing an institution that looks after the whole child. An on-site dental programme puts real substance behind that promise: dental knowledge, healthy habits and good health-seeking behaviour, built into school life, at no cost and no admin to the school itself.
A positive experience with the dentist from day one, plus six-monthly check-ups on school grounds, with problems caught while they’re still small.
Parents opt in per child, care is delivered by HPCSA-registered female clinicians, always chaperoned, and every learner goes home with a written report. Nothing happens without the parent’s explicit yes.
Appointments are scheduled ahead of the visit day around the timetable, each learner leaves class for just 30 minutes, then it’s back to the desk.
We run everything, digital bookings, virtual comms with parents, consent tracking, scheduling. The school provides a parking bay and a standard plug point. That’s the whole list.
The visit day is the visible part. The bigger gift is what learners carry for life: knowing why oral health matters, having a positive relationship with the dentist from day one, and the health-seeking behaviour that follows them into adulthood. As we like to say, you only have to brush the teeth you want to keep.
Age-appropriate classroom talks for the younger grades, the tooth fairy, why baby teeth matter, and how to brush properly. Dental education that lands as a story, not a lecture.
For many learners, the school visit is their first time in a dental chair, a gentle check-up with a friendly clinician at their own school. That first impression shapes a lifetime of health-seeking behaviour.
Children watch their classmates walk to the unit and come back smiling, and then they want their turn. The visit becomes something learners look forward to, and the “why” travels peer-to-peer.
Learners who grow up with routine, positive dental care become adults who book their own check-ups. The school’s wellbeing programme quietly compounds for decades.
Want the tooth fairy talks and education programme included? It’s all in the schools brief.
Get the schools briefDental care for children carries a higher duty of care, and a school’s trust is earned through process, not promises. These four standards are fixed. They are not adjustable per school, per visit or per programme.
No learner is examined without their parent or guardian’s explicit written opt-in. Consent covers exactly what’s listed, check-up and cleaning, and anything beyond it is referred back to the parent before a finger is lifted. No opt-in, no chair. No exceptions.
A learner is never alone with a single adult. Care is delivered with a second Mia team member present, the operatory stays open-door, and the school may assign a staff chaperone to the unit for the full visit day, we encourage it.
School deployments are staffed by HPCSA-registered female clinicians with clear background checks, working to a child-specific clinical protocol. Practitioner numbers and vetting confirmation are supplied to the school before the first visit day.
Each learner leaves with a written parent report: what was checked, what was found, what (if anything) needs follow-up and with whom. Clinical records stay private to the family, the school sees participation numbers only, per POPIA.
Want the full safeguarding standard in writing? It’s in the schools brief.
Get the schools briefThe unit arrives before first bell and is gone by last bell. Every appointment is booked in advance through our digital booking system, scheduled around the timetable, each learner is out of class for 30 minutes, no more.
The mobile clinic parks in the agreed bay and connects to a standard plug point. Own water and dental chair on board, nothing else needed from the school.
Opted-in learners come at their pre-booked times with a staff escort. Check-up + cleaning, 30 minutes door to door, chaperoned throughout, then straight back to class.
Each child gets their written parent report on the spot. Anything needing follow-up is flagged to the parent, never treated on the day without separate consent.
The school day ends as normal. The school receives a participation summary; families receive their reports. Next visit lands six months later.
Want to see a visit day before committing? We’ll arrange a reference call with a school we already serve.
Get the schools briefThe leadership behind Mia at Work, clinical, operational, account-side. The same faces on the walkthrough, the visit days and the phone.
Co-founder and Chief Dental Officer. Sets the clinical and safeguarding standard for every school deployment.
Co-founder. Architect of the connected Mia ecosystem and the standards the school programme runs on.
Runs school-deployment operations, the campus walkthrough, unit scheduling, visit-day logistics and the clinician roster.
Runs the digital booking system and all virtual parent comms, consent packs, appointment schedules, scheme confirmation, report delivery. The school office’s single point of contact.
Everything a school’s leadership, governing body and parent community would expect of a provider working with minors on school grounds, in writing, before the first visit.
School visits are staffed by female clinicians, every one HPCSA-registered. Practitioner numbers supplied to the school up front.
Background checks on all school-deployed team members, confirmed in writing before the first visit day.
Consent-based processing. Clinical records private to the family; the school sees participation numbers only. Full DPA available.
Routine visits claim through the family’s scheme where cover exists. Families without cover get an affordable private rate, confirmed with the parent before any visit.
Comprehensive professional indemnity and public liability insurance per deployed unit. Cover details available for the bursar’s file.
Mia Healthcare is a member of the South African Dental Association.
Three steps, and none of them create admin for your office. Digital bookings, virtual parent comms, consent tracking and scheduling all run on our side.
You receive the schools brief, then our ops lead visits the campus, parking bay, plug point, timetable pattern and safeguarding standard reviewed with your leadership team.
We handle all comms with parents virtually, digital consent packs, opt-ins per child, appointment bookings and scheme confirmation, directly between Mia and each family. Your office forwards one introduction; we do the rest.
The unit arrives before first bell, learners are seen at their pre-booked 30-minute slots, every child goes home with a report, and the six-monthly rhythm is in the calendar.
Per child, in writing, before every visit cycle. Parents receive the consent pack through the school’s normal channels, it covers exactly what happens on the day (check-up and cleaning), who the clinicians are, and how records are handled. A learner without an opt-in simply isn’t on the visit-day list. Anything found that needs treatment beyond the consented scope is referred to the parent, never treated on the day.
Nothing, on both counts. The school provides a parking bay and a standard plug point. We run everything else, digital bookings, virtual comms with parents, consent tracking, appointment scheduling and report delivery. Routine visits are claimed through each family’s medical aid where cover exists; families without cover are offered an affordable private rate, confirmed directly with the parent before the visit, never invoiced through the school.
30 minutes, booked in advance. Every appointment is scheduled ahead of the visit day through our digital booking system, placed around the timetable, so no learner misses an assessment, a test or the same subject twice in a cycle. Walk to the unit, check-up and cleaning, walk back: half an hour door to door.
It goes in the written parent report with a clear explanation and a recommended next step. Follow-up treatment happens with the parent present, either at a Mia practice, at the family’s own dentist, or on a future school visit with separate, specific consent. On-the-day treatment beyond the consented check-up and cleaning doesn’t happen. Full stop.
The full school range: Grade R through matric. The clinical protocol adjusts by age: foundation phase gets the tooth fairy talks and gentle first-chair experiences; primary school focuses on prevention, brushing habits and early orthodontic flags; high school adds hygiene and aesthetic-stage awareness. Staff are welcome on the same visit day, many schools add educators and admin staff to the list.
A parking bay, a standard plug point, access from about 07:00, and a staff escort pattern for learner groups. The unit carries its own water, dental chair and full operatory. No classroom, no sickbay, no school plumbing required, and no admin: bookings and parent comms are all handled digitally by our practice manager.
Yes, any parent may attend their child’s slot, and for Grade R and foundation-phase learners we actively encourage it. The visit-day schedule is shared with opted-in families in advance so parents can plan to be there if they wish.
A short PDF for school leadership: the consent process, the visit-day flow, the safeguarding standard in full, the digital booking + parent comms system we run for you, the tooth fairy talks and education programme, and how medical-aid billing works. Sent within one business day, with a reference school available for a call.
We respond within one business day. POPIA-compliant. Never shared.
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