Patient privacy
Notice of Privacy Practices
How Legacy Dental Arts may use and disclose your health information, the practice’s legal duties, and your rights. This is the notice the practice issues to its patients, published here as the practice publishes it.
What the notice covers
The notice explains how the practice may use and disclose health information for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations; the other uses and disclosures the law permits or requires; your rights to see and copy your health information and to request amendments, restrictions, confidential communications, and an accounting of disclosures; and how to ask a question or make a complaint.
The PDF is the complete and controlling text. This page points to it and does not change, add to, or summarize its terms.
Privacy contact
The notice names Dr. Penfield as the practice’s Contact Officer. Call (907) 622-7874 or write to legacydental@mtaonline.net with questions about the notice or to request a copy. Please do not include health information in an email.
Questions and complaints
If you are concerned that your privacy rights may have been violated, you may complain to the practice using the contact details in the notice, and you may also submit a written complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The notice states that the practice will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
Earlier edition
The practice’s earlier typesetting of this notice, dated March 12, 2018, remains available for reference: 2018 edition (PDF, 2 pages, 263 KB). The July 2025 edition above is the practice’s most recent.
This page is print-friendly; the notice itself is the downloadable PDF above.
Questions?
Call (907) 622-7874 or write to legacydental@mtaonline.net. Please do not include medical, dental, insurance, or other sensitive information in an email.