Original Article

Year : 2020 | Volume : 5 | Issue : 2 | Page : 31 - 2

Concept of Health‐care Quality for the General Dental Practitioner: An Introduction

Dhivya Kamalkanthan, R. Kamal Kanthan

International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Address for correspondence:

Dr. Dhivya Kamalkanthan,

International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

E-mail: dhivya.frenz@gmail.com

Abstract

Aim:

To incorporate and implement the concept of health‐care quality in every dental office, through measures of dental quality work. This study is a self-assessment study using a Pie Chart 1. It explains a dentist to assess themselves under certain important aspects of dental office management like finance, dental work, business process, customers and learning and growth to keep them in track with current‐day quality practise. This helps the dentist to establish a world-class quality practise without compromising in any aspect. In present-day scenario, increase in the number of dental clinics, dental awareness, the variation in the number of patients seeking dental treatment, particularly in cities brings up new challenges to the dentist to balance quality, ethics, and evidence into their practice without any compromise in the above aspects to ensure best quality care for their patients to improve their quality of life. This article gives an overview for the busy dental practitioner to incorporate quality improvement measures into dental practice.

Keywords: Dental practice, healthcare, quality

Financial support and sponsorship

Nil.

Conflicts of interest

There are no conflicts of interest.

How to cite this article: Kamalkanthan D, Kanthan RK. Concept of health-care quality for the general dental practitioner: An introduction. Int J Soc Rehab 2020;5:31-2.