About:

Telangana dentists forum is an online and offline platform for all the dental surgeons [defined by the boundaries of Telangana.], to address the current issues within the fraternity and moving towards the absolute growth of the fraternity with respect to :

1.Total and Complete awareness on the oral health issues among the people of Telangana.

2.A fair and deserving uprise of the average income of the dentists from the region of telangana.

3.Incorporating quality of the service and quality assurance in Dentistry.

4.Cutting down the cost of service.

5.Housing the service delivery system.

with discussions, presentations, articles, and persuation .

And including other criteria that improves:

1.The lifestyle of the dental surgeons.

2.The quality of dental services.

3.The average income of the dentists.

4.The overall awareness of the oral health problems.

5.The structuring of the management bodies.

6.The patient satisfaction and acceptance.

So here we welcome you all to join hands, join

energies and join resources to achieve the above

‘Point Agenda’.

And evolve into the era of Advanced Oral Health

Care, complying to the highest norms.

And aligning with the interests of the WHO, UNICEF,

DCI, IDA etc.

And the government of India & the state government

of the Telangana . And work towards the united

goals by....

1.Becoming a one point of contact as a forum for the working dentists of the telangana state,[ to communicate and network with the people , government, dental student communities ,other government and nongovernment organizations to work together on reaching the set goals.]

2.By Uniting and Voicing as one body for the representations of the Telangana Dental Fraternity to the state government of Telangana.

3.By gaining sponsorships to build the common support structures[both virtual and Infrastructural] for the dentists of the Telangana state.

4.By creating the database of the Telangana state pertaining to the number of clinics,locations of the clinics, average number of services delivered per annum and other demographical data ,including oral health reports of the community to aid in planning and implementing appropriate services as needed by the community.

Telangana Dentists Forum: A Body representing the

dental fraternity of the Telangana State.

Telangana Dentists Forum:

Goals/Objectives Development of dental fraternity across India [starting

with Telangana State]

Promoting dental research.

Exchange programs with leading Dental Universities , Institutions and Research houses across the globe.

Building the Dental and Oral Centre of Excellence.[CoE]

Building the best practices in dental industry.

Building the knowledge society through dental and oral health awareness programs and through marketing.

Conducting dental and Oral health camps.

Bidding for oral health related research assignments from foreign bodies or research institutions.[Working on outsourcing assignments]

Partnering with Health Ministry and implementing the government schemes.[ PPP engagement]

Act as Thought Leader for the development of dental and oral health policies and programs. [Working closely with health ministry.]

Be a Do Leader and actively implement Dental and Oral health programs.

Telangana Dentists Forum:

Goals/Objectives

Be an Epitome for dental and oral health related

product endorsements.

Establish the Quality Assurance center for all the

oral health products.

Telangana Dentists Forum:

Goals/Objectives

THE CURRENT ISSUES:

1.Practice is at all time low.

2.Skill outcomes are low.

3.Morale of the dentists has fallen.

4.Fewer options for conventional practice.

5.Oral Health Awareness is low.

6.No support system for the dental fraternity in the local scenario.

7.Unplanned establishments.

8.Other pressures......

Absolute Growth!!

Growth refers to the positive change in size, often over a period of time.

Economic growth is the increse in the market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time.

Absolute growth [in dentistry]refers to a positive change that is measurable over a period of time on a community scale with respect to:

1.Social awareness of the oral problems.

2.Clinical practice management.

3.Patient management.

4.Financial management.

5.Skill management.

Dimensions we should focus to enhance the clinical

practice and community oral health . viz:

1.Social Awareness.

2.Clinical practice management.

3.Patient management.

4.Financial management.

5.Skill management

Total and Complete

awareness.

Reaching out to all the patients defined within the geographic area and making them aware of all the oral problems and their consequences, including the care that ought to be taken to avoid such oral health problems.

This implies including and participating all the people in need of such services and making them aware of all the oral health issues. To make it practical to implement , we also imply defining the population by the state borders.

Quality of the Service.

Quality of the service is defined as the perceived

value of the services availed by the customers.

In terms of Dentistry, it involves everything from the

point of the patient’s visit to the dental clinic and

ones experience through out the treatment

procedure till the payment of the bill for the services

availed.

How to improve the quality

of the Service?

1. By increasing the quality of the treatments .

2. Price it right!!!

3. Attain customer satisfaction.

4. Ethical practices.

5. Patient Awareness

Quality Assurance

It is defined as “A way of preventing mistakes or defects in manufacturing products and avoiding problems when delivering solutions or services to the customers.”

Quality assurance refers to administrative and procedural activities implemented in a quality system, so that requirements and goals for a product , service or activity will be fulfilled .

It is a systematic measurement ,comparison with a standard, monitoring of the processes and an associated feedback loop that confers error prevention.

In Dentistry , Quality assurance is defined as ,”A Process involved to avoid problems when delivering solutions and services to the customers which includes an administrative and process oriented activities that will improve the outcome of the services and ensure patient satisfaction.”

Cost of Service

Utilities’ revenue requirements which are evaluated

and are levied on customers judicially are

considered as “Cost of Service”.

In other words...The amount of money needed for a

utility to operate and maintain facilities , cover capital

expenses and provide an opportunity to earn a

profit.

Cost of Service in Dental

terms:

The amount of money needed to operate , maintain

facilities and cover capital expenses of the dental clinic

which are evaluated and levied on patients judicially for

the services availed, so as to provide an opportunity to

earn a profit.

Finding a definitive cost of service is an impossible task

in dentistry as the cost of establishment and the number

of patients visiting a dental clinic may vary indefinitely.

Why do we need to

understand ‘Cost of

Service’?

Understanding “Cost of Service” pertaining to

dentistry will help understand the relationships

between the quality of the service , cost of service

and patient satisfaction.

Service Delivery System

Any means or process for conveying a product or

service to the recipient is called a “Service Delivery

System”.

A configuration of technology and organizational

networks designed to deliver services that satisfy the

needs, wants or aspirations of the customers.

Management bodies

The body incorporating people to represent as a unit

, whose functions are to coordinate the efforts of

people to accomplish goals and objectives using

available resources.

Where are we standing along the WHO Norms.?

Policy basis for the WHO

Oral Health Programme:

Oral Health is integral and essential to general

health.

Oral health is a determinant factor for quality of life.

Oral health – general health .

Proper oral health care reduces premature mortality.

Dental caries is still the major oral health problem in most industrialized countries, affecting 60-90% of school children and the vast majority of adults .

In many developing countries, access to oral health services is limited and teeth are often left untreated or are extracted because of the pain or discomfort.

Through out the world, loosing teeth still seen by many people as a natural consequence of ageing. While in some industrialized countries, there has been a positive turn of reduction in tooth loss among the adults.

Oral Disease Burdens

Given the extent of the problem, oral diseases are major public health problems. Their impact on individuals and communities as a result of pain and suffering , impairment of function and reduced quality of life, is considerable.

Moreover , traditional treatments of oral diseases is extremely costly, the fourth most expensive disease to treat in most industrialized countries.

In low income countries, if treatments were available, the cost of dental caries alone in children would exceed the total health care budget for children.

For the new millennium, new oral health goals are urgently needed not only to strengthen dental caries control and prevention activities but also to address other significant components of the oral disease burden such as periodontal conditions, oral precancerous conditions, cranio facial trauma, pain and oral health related quality of life.

Such global goals for oral health will assist regions, countries, and local health care planners to develop preventive programs that are targeted at populations and high risk groups and to further improve quality of oral health systems.

WHO Goals

1. Reducing the burden of oral disease and disability, especially in poor and marginalized populations.

2. Promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing risk factors to oral health that arise from environmental, economic, social and behavioral causes.

3. Developing oral health systems that equitably improve oral health outcomes, respond to peoples legitimate demands and are financially fair.

4. Framing policies in oral health, based on integration of oral health into national and community health programmes, and promoting oral health as an effective dimension for development policy of society.