General Dentistry – located at 805 South Highway 65, Suite 20, Lincoln CA, 95648, Phone: 916.434.7116
Dr. Kris Martinson and his team of Dental Professionals make patient safety paramount, “Excellence in Patient Safety and Infection Control” is the cornerstone of this modern dental office. This Patient Compliant office is an example which other dental offices should follow!
Q: Do you recommend employee training every two years?
A: Do you recommend that your patients see you every two years? Brush their teeth every two years? Pay their bill every two years? My answer is NO!
Employee training is to inform, educate and develop skills. Based on my experiences 95% of dentistry should be conducting employee training four times a year – minimum!
Q: With your service do you offer any type of guarantee that you will pay OSHA fines if we are inspected and cited?
A: Do you offer your patients a guarantee while under your care they will not get cavities, infections, etc?, the answer is “NO”.
I do not provide worthless gimmicks or promises I provide solid service and my track record will back that up. There are plenty of consultants and compliance service companies that offer a “we pay the OSHA fines” guarantees and there are plenty of dentists that had bough into the gimmick only to find out the hard way it was just Bull Shit.
Here are some things to keep in mind,
As P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”.
Q: I know dental offices are being inspected more and more fines are being issued, is this because the government needs the money?
A: NO, its because 9 out of 10 dental offices are grossly noncompliant which presents a high risk level to both patients and employees. If an office is compliant citations and fines are not issued no matter how much the government need the money. Dentists need to stop coming up with lame excuses for their unsafe offices and start taking responsibility.
I am shocked as to the number of dental offices I find that are grossly out of compliance when it comes to patient safety. Everyday I am in dental offices which the employees do not know, do not care, understand or have a clue about preventing cross contamination. The common issues I find in dental offices after dental offices are,
Do a few hundred patients need to come down with something before something is done about incompetent employees in dentistry?
When will dentists recognize the risk their patients are placed in because of their incompetent employees and correct the matter?
98 percent of the dental offices I come into contact with have employees using surface disinfectants without reading the instructions first, sadly not only are they risking themselves they are also risking patients. This is a movie of what I run into everyday: Read Disinfectant Instructions
In 2010 99% of the dental offices I came in contact with the employees were using surface disinfectants incorrectly and 96% of those employees never read the label instructions of the product. Contaminated room anyone?
If you can’t read or follow instructions on a label or take the responsibility to do so maybe you should be working as a Walmart Greeter before you cross contaminate a patient or two!
A new year means new changes and updates so you need to make sure that compliance is current. Here is a little checklist you can use,
This would be the perfect time to give the office a good cleaning. Throw away stuff that you are not using and reduce clutter as much as you can.
Procrastination, indecisiveness and negativity devastates more careers and businesses than anything else.
Dentist are always complaining about the cost of compliance. I find this very strange since 98% of the offices I evaluated are not compliant and presented a high risk to both employees and patients! Where are they spending the compliance money?