title: Improving quality and speed in providing fixed prosthodontics.
abstract: American dentists should be pleased with the level of care they provide to their patients in the area of fixed prosthodontics. The American public is served with good, competent care at a moderate cost. However, this article has addressed the potential for increasing the quality level of care, increasing the speed of treatment and maintaining the moderate cost by delegating some of the clinical tasks to qualified staff members. In my opinion and experience, these results are achievable by delegating up to one-half of the time involved in fixed prosthodontic clinical tasks to qualified, educated, supervised non-dentist staff members, where such delegation is legal.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Research Associates, Provo, Utah 84604, USA.
authors.forename: Gordon J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Christensen
mesh_terms: D003442:Crowns / Q000592:standards*; D032022:Delegation, Professional; D003761:Dental Impression Technique; D003797:Dental Staff; D003830:Denture, Partial, Fixed / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D019239:Practice Patterns, Dentists'