When you choose a new dentist, you are making an important decision for you and your family. You are entrusting care for a key part of your overall wellness to someone with whom you’ve had no prior experience. To make your experience a pleasant and memorable, prior planning will be of great help.
Location and office hours
Take your time in choosing a dentist; don’t wait for emergency. Choose a dentist at a comfortable distance from house. Make sure accessibility of dentist, when you need him.
Dentist accessibility
This clearly means that dentist is not only accessible from your house but should have sufficient quality time to answer your doubts/myths/beliefs.
Personal comfort
Comfortability with the dentist is the most significant factor. Are you able to explain your queries and get satisfactory answers for the same? Are u comfortable expressing your phobias and fear, and how is the response of dentist in that context. What is the comfort level in taking treatment in his clinic?
Professional qualifications
Specialist’s qualifications may be of great help in successfully rendering treatment as also will be well versed with the latest innovations and techniques. In addition a good dentist will be able to show evidence of continuing professional development since qualifying, in order to keep up to date with new techniques and treatments. Many will be members of additional professional associations and societies.
Emergency care
It’s the clear test of the doctors proficiency and experience with the associated profession/specialty.
Ask others for recommendations
Evaluate the dentist after an appointment. During your initial visit, make sure office is neat and clean. How do they handle your personal history (medical and dental)? Lastly “Word Of Mouth Referral” plays a vital role.
Practice technology
Dentistry is a specialty where success of treatment is multifactorial. Dentist professional qualification is one of the key deciding factors, followed by advancement in the technology in context to the instrument and equipment. Most of the patients think technological advancement is for the convenience of doctor, but on the contrary that advancement is to ascertain a better access to diseased area, to come to a more concrete and definitive diagnosis. Diagnosis is the first step to achieve quality treatment.
