A security advance team sweeps the route before the person it protects travels. Jack Stromgren, DDS, modeled the preventive pillar of his Executive Protection Dental Plan on that kind of preparation.
The pillar is called Advance Work, and it is the first of four pillars in the Jack Stromgren Executive Protection Dental Plan. The plan was introduced in September 2026.
The plan’s intended members are self-employed professionals in San José and elsewhere in Santa Clara County who have no employer dental coverage, gig-economy executives among them. It aims to make dental care affordable for people without insurance.
The release describes Advance Work as an emphasis on preventive care and on spotting dental needs before they turn urgent. In the plan’s outline, the pillar has three parts. A complete diagnostic workup opens it, risk mapping comes next and a care calendar spanning 12 months closes it.
The Diagnostic Workup
Accurate diagnosis already leads the office’s stated approach to care, with a clear plan for treatment and careful clinical work after it. The plan puts that diagnosis at the start of every membership.
Stromgren’s hospital residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center is the clinical background his biography credits with a direct, thorough and unhurried style of care. Patients there often had complicated medical histories, and he saw a broad mix of clinical conditions. That hospital training followed his 2005 DDS from UCSF.
The Risk Map
Risk mapping is the second part of the pillar. The plan names four risks it tracks: gum disease, old restorations, teeth grinding and a dry mouth.
Old restorations fall within the restorative care the office provides. The list of restorative and preventive services on the practice site includes crowns, bridges and repair of teeth that are worn down, fractured or decayed.
That restorative work has deep roots in his career. Before Willow Glen, he worked as a Sunnyvale associate for eight years, where crown and bridge cases made up a large share of his work.
The office also offers implant treatment, after several years he devoted to implant training, and each implant case begins with an assessment of the patient.
The 12-Month Calendar
The third part is a care calendar covering the next 12 months. In the plan’s outline, it follows the first two parts.
The calendar runs through the office’s routine exams, cleanings and other preventive appointments for patients of every age. Those visits are booked with room for evaluation and discussion as well as treatment.
New appointments at the office book about 11 weeks out. Plan members receive priority scheduling.
The Premise Behind the Executive Protection Dental Plan
The plan’s premise is that the cost of Advance Work runs lower than the cost of an emergency. It treats an emergency as a threat to business continuity, one able to upend a pitch or a product launch.
Rapid Response, the plan’s emergency pillar, sits on the other side of that comparison. It offers urgent visits on the day of a call or the one after, plus a direct line into the office. The Inner Circle brings in periodontists, endodontists and implant specialists, with Stromgren coordinating each referral, and Zero Blind Spots keeps the coverage terms published up front.
The release adds a limit, saying the framework makes no promise that each dental problem can be headed off. What it does describe is a model that makes preparation central, alongside access, coordination and transparency.
The pillar’s model comes from executive close protection, a field the plan draws on with respect for those who work in security. One dentist answers for each member, much as a detail lead does, which the plan sets apart from the way an insurance call center works.
The plan is built for founders, freelancers and consultants without employer dental insurance. Its messaging notes that such coverage is often the first to go when someone goes out on their own.
The Office Behind the Calendar
The calendar is carried out at Stromgren Family Dentistry on Lincoln Avenue. Jack Stromgren, a Turlock native with more than twenty years in dentistry, bought the Willow Glen office in 2014, when it had four operatories serving roughly 1,100 patients. It now has five operatories and an active patient base past 3,000, and in 2022 he hired an associate dentist.
Adults who have put off dental visits because of anxiety are among those the office treats. For them, Stromgren explains each step ahead of time, lets the patient set the pace and allows extra time, an approach that has drawn referrals from some who stayed away from dentists for years.
The release links his community record to the plan’s attention to access. That record includes a free day of care every November since 2016 and a board seat with the Willow Glen Free Clinic.
For six years he also ran sealant programs at elementary schools in east San José. Away from the office, he coaches a youth soccer team and sponsors one in Little League.
About Jack Stromgren
Jack Stromgren, DDS, created Advance Work for his dental plan and practices at his Willow Glen dental practice.