Patient Satisfaction in Comprehensive Clinic in a Private Dental College

Abstract

Patient satisfaction is a multidimensional concept.[1] As teaching institutions dental college clinics must constantly strive to find a balance between meeting the needs of the students and the patients. Patient satisfaction with the treatment done in a dental hospital clinic is very important because it will influence their service utilization pattern.[2][3] Dental schools are teaching facilities and usually the traditional system is only followed with the students rotating through different clinics. The patients in traditional system have to go to different clinics for each treatment. This was very difficult for the patients and also time consuming. So most of the patients prefer the comprehensive system, because of its convenience. The comprehensive system is patient oriented. This study is done to assess the satisfaction of the patient in a comprehensive clinic.