Guía Metodológica Para Estándares y Procedimientos en Habilitación de Consultorios Odontológicos Independientes en Colombia

Abstract

In Colombia during the year 2022, 22,582 independent dentists were registered, this according to the statistics given by the Special Registry of Health Providers. (Polished Veal, 2020); In 2016 and 2018, the district secretary of health closed more than 50 dental services in Bogotá. The above allowed to state the need to have a step by step, to achieve regulatory and technical compliance to adequately comply with the functionality of dental offices, therefore arises the present research project, focused on a literary review, which could have a follow-up base for professionals in this area, therefore, the main objective was to create a methodological proposal in the application of standards and procedures for the qualification of independent dental offices in Colombia, given that many of them have been closed for not executing the requirements established by the entities in charge of their control. and normal operation, since in this way it could guarantee safety for patients who need the service and also meet the need of the market with quality. For this, the methodological proposal took into account aspects such as infrastructure, medical equipment, clinical procedures, waste management, biosecurity and formal documentation required for the proper functioning of independent dental offices in Colombia, facilitating in detail the authorization based on the aforementioned standards, under an inspection and current legal regulations.