Internal control of the dental care quality in improving efficiency of oral cavity sanatation in internal affairs employees

Abstract

A method for internal quality control of medical care was implemented in the work of the dental department of a departmental outpatient clinic in assessing the effectiveness of oral care and endodontic treatment of complicated forms of caries in certified internal affairs employees. Every year, 240 people were examined for visual assessment of the quality of the oral cavity sanation and detection of its defects, which were divided by age into two study groups: young (19-39 years) and middle (40-57 years) age. At the same time, 10 cases of endodontic treatment of pulpitis and 10 cases of endodontic treatment of periodontitis were evaluated with the help of radiotherapy methods for the quality of root canal filling. The three-year observation of the results of introducing the quality control of medical care made it possible to objectively establish an increase in the effectiveness of ongoing dental treatment and prophylactic measures in the annual medical examination by 29.2% in young people and 34.2% in middle-aged people, compared to the figures obtained in the initial period of the study, as well as improving the quality of root canal filling with complicated caries.