Patients can use the following tips to assess the quality of dental practice for themselves.
The essentials in brief:
- Good Dentist Countryside Dr. Practice is understandable and comprehensive advice from the doctor at eye level.
- A qualified best dentist attaches great importance to dental care and tooth preservation and offers the patient tips for oral care at home.
- Anyone can call themselves a specialist. Patients should look for reputable and recognized titles.
- Review portals for dentists can help with the choice, but they do not always provide reliable information.
Table of Contents
- Good practice organization
- Competent initial consultation and thorough initial examination
- Advice and freedom of choice in upcoming treatments
- Focus: oral care at home
- Beware of alleged specialists
- Beware of doctor review portals
Good practice organization
Working people are particularly familiar with this: special evening appointments meet the needs of patients. But flexible opening times do not say anything about the quality of a dental practice.
Long waiting times for an appointment or long waiting times in the practice are often an indication of poor practice organization. Don’t wait longer than 30 minutes for a fixed appointment.
In the event of pain, it should always be possible to get an appointment as soon as possible.
Twice a year, those with statutory health insurance are entitled to a dental check-up by Dentist Countryside Dr.
Competent initial consultation and thorough initial examination
When patients introduce themselves to a new practice, the dentist should conduct a detailed initial consultation. He will ask about existing diseases such as tooth decay, periodontitis, or other underlying diseases, as well as about possible therapy requests.
A thorough initial examination is also important so that the dentist can form his own picture of the health of the teeth and gums.
Advice and freedom of choice in upcoming treatments
If a specific treatment is pending, the doctor must advise the patient in understandable language.
The consultation should not take place lying down, but sitting and at eye level with the doctor. It is not the practice staff but the doctor who gives the patient comprehensive advice on the course of therapy and its risks and offers alternatives.
A Dentist Countryside Dr. who is registered with the health insurance company is obliged to present the therapies and services provided by the health insurance company in detail.
Caution is advised if the doctor devalues health insurance benefits as inadequate and only suggests paid therapy. In many cases, treatment is possible without chargeable extras (exception: dentures).
Note: A dentist who is not only interested in the patient’s money will name free alternatives from the Health Insurance Company and present additional offers with additional private costs as such. Differences in price and quality must be understandable for the patient.
At the end of the consultation, summarize the points that are important for you, which have been explained to you, and communicate them to the dentist. This gives you and your doctor the certainty that you have understood all the essential points of the upcoming treatment and possible costs.
In the case of expensive and longer-lasting therapies, you should make a short memory log at home. So you always have an overview of the ongoing treatment.
Focus: oral care at home
A competent dentist attaches great importance to good dental care. This means that the dentist regularly gives the patient tips and assistance for oral hygiene at home during the check-up appointments.
In addition, he should regularly measure the depth of gum pockets in order to identify and treat periodontal disease at an early stage.
Note: A good dentist actively involves the patient in dental care and is not primarily concerned with regularly selling him an expensive professional tooth cleaning service. Because: The decisive factor is less the dental cleaning in the practice than the daily, correctly performed oral hygiene at home.
If patients decide to have their teeth cleaned professionally, they should make sure that the dentist himself checks the results of the tooth cleaning afterward.
Beware of alleged specialists
There is high competition among dentists. New patients are often recruited with bold names that promise experience and competence. Other than in the other groups of doctors, there are only a few specialist titles in the dental field.
These include specialists in periodontics, orthodontics, and oral surgery.
Terms such as “implantologist” or “prophylaxis specialist” are not protected and therefore do not offer a quality feature on their own.
Beware of doctor review portals
Doctor rating portals, on which patients can also find reviews about dentists, are now enjoying great popularity. However, patients should know that distortion and manipulation are possible.
So far, many doctors have received only a few, possibly even only one evaluation. In this way, it is not possible to form an informed opinion about a practice.
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