Development of criteria and standards for dental care.
Quality assurance requires realistic standards of compliance with professionally acceptable criteria. As dental practice changes, these measures of performance must also change to distinguish between adequate and inadequate dental care.
D003729:Dental Care / Q000592:standards*; D003752:Dental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003814:Dentistry, Operative / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D010517:Periodontics / Q000592:standards; D010808:Physical Examination; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013515:Surgery, Oral / Q000592:standards