Reasons to Choose a Multi-Specialty Dental Practice
By Richard Klein | Published on April 5, 2011 | 0 Comments
Multi-specialty dental practices offer a number of benefits to their patients that smaller practices just cannot provide. According to Dr. Richard Klein, a laser dentistry specialist in Smithtown, NY, who practices alongside an experienced team of dental professionals at Now Dental of Suffolk, patients who visit multi-specialty practices get an especially high standard of care.
Specifically, Dr. Klein explains that multi-specialty group dental practices offer patients the chance to visit doctors who have been trained in their particular specialties and subspecialties, rather than having to see one single dentist for all their dental care needs. When a problem or an issue does come up, the doctors at a multi-specialty dental practice are able to communicate with each other in a team setting. Patients then have the benefit of having an entire team of dental specialists to look at and evaluate their particular dental needs, rather than just one single practitioner.
Dr. Klein says that most dentists in Smithtown, NY, are trained in one area – whether that is laser dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, or implant dentistry, to name a few – rather than across all the specialties. With the advent of multi-specialty groups, however, patients get the benefit of seeing a handful of the most well trained specialists in Smithtown, all in one office.
Not only are patients given access to dental experts that they might not find elsewhere, but they also have the benefit of working with specialists who work well with each other. Dr. Klein says that the single biggest benefit that multi-specialty dental practices can offer patients is group communication throughout the entire medical team.
Dr. Klein serves as a “team leader” at Now Dental of Suffolk because he has been cross-trained across multiple specialties. At Now Dental of Suffolk, Dr. Klein facilitates the communication with the patient and brings together all the specialists. Together, a team of dental specialists and a patient can sit down in one area and come up with a solution to whatever the dental problem is.
This is similar to how some top hospital programs operate. Dr. Klein says that doctors in certain well-known hospitals will sit down and take a team approach to medicine, just as he does with his team at Now Dental of Suffolk. Together, Dr. Klein works with other dental specialists to review patient models, look at charts and records, and discuss cases.
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