Outlines of Dental Manual, Institute of Dentistry, CMH Lahore Medical College, Lahore

This operational manual of Institute of Dentistry, CMH Lahore Medical College highlights all aspects of dental clinic development as well as ongoing operations.

The Dental Manual is a policy and procedure manual that covers the areas of dental practice management A team of experts in health communication created a manual that consolidates years of experience to help meet the day-to-day challenges of running a dental institute.

The manual has been written specifically for dental practices. It uses dental terminology and dental standards. This comprehensive, user-friendly document gives practices the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to manage any service oriented dental institute. The Dental Manual will help establish, maintain, or develop a successful dental institute. Today's dental practices are increasingly complex in providing service to patients.

If the group has the passion and commitment to move forward with the process, organize into a task force or work group. Task forces are organized according to varying levels of formality. At a minimum to become a functional body we have

Establish ground rules,
Agree on methods for making decisions,
Define roles and expectations

At the same time, they must address issues that they have never seen before such as accreditation, investment, litigation, marketing, and technology. The Dental Manual covers all of these areas. Unlike many small business guides, the Dental Manual not only gives dentists advice on how to run an institute but it provides the answers.

The Benefits

The dental manual provides you a sensible approach to putting systems in place in your practice. It will save one reinventing the wheel. It tells us what systems we need and how to set them up.

Documented Polices

Dental policies help us develop a knowledge blue print regarding our policies. It is one place where all the information about what makes our dental institute distinctive is compiled. It is the blueprint of our teaching and practice.

Defined Standards

The dental manual will enable us to develop clearly documented guidelines and precisely defined standards about how our institute operates

Legal Protection

By developing and documenting standard procedures for our institute we will protect our self against litigation. Clearly defined system provides evidence how we run our system.

Informed Staff

Institute’s operational documentation clearly and unambiguously outlines the responsibilities of all staff. The dental manual can be used to orient new staff and refresh existing staff. It will reinforce the philosophy of our institute. We can involve staff in organizing our teaching and clinical policy and procedural manual thereby gain our commitment to implement policies.

Satisfied Patients / Students

Most importantly our patients and students will benefit. We can use the dental manual to establish, maintain and develop a successful format for the benefit of patients and students.

Maximum Efficiency

Principals and practices that choose to develop a dental manual will preside over an efficient teaching and skills development that would be able to reach its maximum potential. The efficient manual would save time, energy, heartache and money by working smarter.

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