Abstract
Introduction: Many General Dental Practitioners run single handedly a mini-hospital. Practice administration, delivery of treatment and financial stewardship are all demanding with consequent induction of uncertainty, distress, and diminished performance, loss of satisfaction and unwelcome depression and anxiety. Aim: This contribution describes moderation of stresses in general dental practice by applying amelioration policies. Discussion: This advisory is targeted at all dentists involved in extensive dental therapy. The stress and anxiety of practice management is improved by applying newly established principles of practice, namely the Initial Assessment and Ranking of Treatment Index (IARTI) and What arrangements Have you made to meet your Oligations (WAHUM TOMYO), Immediate Payment Therapy (IPP) and Big Toe Philosophy (BTP). Conclusion: By applying these fundamental principles into general dental practice, much anxiety is relieved, challenges and problems are avoided or resolved and successful practice of dentistry is realized. A much higher frequency of failures will occur if these principles are not applied. Success does depend on applying IARTI and WAHUM TOMYO, IPP and BTP.
Highlights
Many General Dental Practitioners run single handedly a mini-hospital
Delivery of treatment and financial stewardship are all demanding with consequent induction of uncertainty, distress, and diminished performance, loss of satisfaction and unwelcome depression and anxiety
Aim: This contribution describes moderation of stresses in general dental practice by applying amelioration policies. This advisory is targeted at all dentists involved in extensive dental therapy
Summary
Many General Dental Practitioners (GDPs) enter into providing a Dentistry-Community service with every noble intention gleaned from years of professional training. Of necessity dental treatment demands multiple attendances: A course of planned treatment will clearly indicate to the dentist, and the patient, that attendances will need many appointments, extended over a period of time It is not unusual for treatment plans to first stabilize soft tissues, and embark on restoring decay, after which major reparative prosthetic work is necessitated. Patients rarely can afford payments, and, unless they have made arrangements to pay, either by insurance, securing loans, or making arrangements with treating dentist, these people turn out to be unreliable, and often fee-dodgers Those patients who do not want to know in advance what treatments are needed, proposed, or the costs incurred, can only be a source of future trouble, be delinquent in payment and try to maliciously exploit goodwill and gullibility of vulnerable dentists.
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