Telangana Dentists forum is an online and offline platform for all the practicing dentists, to address the current issues within the fraternity and to move forward towards the absolute growth of the Dental Service Industry.

2. 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 .

3.  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.

4.  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....

5.  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.

6.  Telangana Dentists Forum: A Body representing the
dental fraternity of the Telangana State.

7. 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.

8.  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

9.  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

10. 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......

11. 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.

12.  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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22.  Where are we standing along the WHO Norms.?

23. 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.

24.  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.

25. 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.

26.  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.

27. 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.