title: Guidelines for professional quality dentures for the financially disadvantaged.
abstract: The purpose of this project was to evaluate and report on the timing of procedures involved in complete denture service based on criteria for assessment of quality and to determine the effectiveness of a model of such a delivery system in terms of success of treatment and reduction of cost. It can be concluded that the denture care system may and can be used as a model to provide the base line reference to compare with other denture care delivery systems; the use of criteria for assessment of quality is not only efficient, but is also practical; and a complete denture treatment service of the quality defined by the criteria developed for this model can be provided to patients.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003761:Dental Impression Technique; D003766:Dental Occlusion; D003800:Dental Technicians; D003779:Denture Design; D003824:Denture, Complete / Q000191:economics*; D004497:Education, Dental; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008489:Medical Indigency; D009066:Mouth, Edentulous / Q000628:therapy*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000193:education; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States