Dental Clinics For All Situations

Choose A Dental Clinic to Cater for All Eventualities

As was often the case in the past, some dentists may still choose to set up a surgery in a section of their home and to practice alone with just the support of a nurse and perhaps someone to man the phone. More recently, however, there is a growing tendency for these specialised healthcare professionals to operate, instead, out of a purpose-designed dental clinic and either to employ a few fellow practitioners or to form a partnership with a number of colleagues to gain the capacity to treat more patients and to offer them a broader range of services.

In addition to the dentists, the staff complement of this larger type of facility is likely to include trained dental nurses and hygienists, as well as one or more dedicated receptionists. Having more trained staff on hand not only means that patients will generally not have to face a long wait for an appointment, but also that, should they require some more specialised form of treatment, there will more than likely be an employee or a partner on the team who has the relevant skills and experience to provide it. One of the other more obvious benefits of attending a dental clinic is that its facilities are invariably more extensive than those of a smaller practice. Equipment such as an X-ray machine can be extremely expensive and its purchase price is far more justified when it is used sufficiently often to be cost-effective.

Employing a larger team of personnel also means it becomes easier to make time for continuing professional development and to seize every available opportunity to learn about the most recent advances in techniques and technology that can help to improve the overall experience. This is, after all, precisely what those patients who have decided to visit a dental clinic have a right to expect.

Typically, this type of establishment will normally be equipped to deliver a mix of services ranging from the more basic routine tasks such as fillings and other restorative treatments, extractions, the provision of removable prostheses, and root canal work to the more specialised type of care that includes orthodontic treatments and prosthetic implants. In addition, it is also likely to offer a number of oral-hygiene services such as scaling and polishing, teeth whitening, and customised programmes of preventative care.

Recognised in South Africa as a leader in the provision of high-quality healthcare, the extensive medical facilities operated by Intercare include a number of modern dental clinics. Manned by accomplished and caring professionals, they are dedicated to the goal of maintaining the highest possible standards of patient care.