QUALITY OF MEDICAL CARE IN A LARGE DENTAL POLYCLINIC (RESULTS OF THE PATIENTS SURVEY)
The article discusses the results of the patients’ interview on the quality of dental care in the dental clinic of Smolensk and the authors’ opinions on the role of this factor in the diagnostics and treatment of dental diseases. The ways to improve the results of treatment of patients with caries, gingivitis and periodontitis is an acute problem of dental care. The authors note that providing diagnostic and curative measures of separate patients by dentists alone is not enough in solving this problem. Further analysis is important. Effective treatment of caries, chronic inflammatory generalized periodontal diseases may be important to reduce the systemic disease process and to improve the general health status irrespective of the presence or absence of evident links between them. Evident pathogenetic relationship between some internal diseases and periodontitis requires a multidisciplinary approach to the management of patients with comorbidities.