Hospital-clinic collaboration in local dental cares

Abstract

To promote the hospital-clinic collaboration, a survey by inquiry was performed to meet the needs of local dental society, evaluating the stand of dental school affiliated hospitals and role oral surgery department in particular. The survey gives the following conclusions.
1. Supporting hospitals must be able to treat medically complex cases and provide the advanced dental care services using the latest technology.
2. The referred patients had complex disorders most frequently in circulatory system related areas.
3. There is a demand for dental wards specialized in such as disease-confined, handicapped, geriatric patients.
4. It is essential to employ such tool as Internet to collaborate hospital and clinics in future.
5. Both at-home and in-hospital care system are essential for bedridden patients.
6. Sooner organization of medical support system for dental emergency patients is in urge.