The Most Important Importance Of Trust In A Dentist And Patient

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“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” 1
Trust is a basic, unseen, and important factor in diagnosis, treatment, and healing. So it is very important that a dentist and patient should understand what it is, why it’s important and what steps should be taken in building strong trust between dentist and patient. Dentists, who have the ability to communicate care and compassion, builds confidence in patients (Epstein 2003) which in result decrease patient anxiety and fear of dental procedures (Awad et al. 2000) and thus providing strength to a relation. Moreover, trust is main factor affecting the business of clinician. Dentist who builds a trustworthy relationship with patients always get more business in the operatory when existing patients starts referring other outside patients. Moreover, a strong trustworthy relationship always make the clinician to provide better services to his patients so that more stronger relationship can be build. Dentist will be more confident in asking health related queries as well as alerting the patients of any issue that is seen during diagnosis which may affect patient’s health in future. If the dentist has full trust in the patient, then in case of financial crises dentist may give choice to the patient to opt for treatment without putting the oral health in risk and making the payment later on. Above all, trust plays an important role in saving the dentist from law suits in case mistake is committed accidently and the patient may only oversee if a strong relationship of trust exists between two subjects.
The important pillars on which trust between dentist and patient is standing are...

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...t autonomy is recognized. To generate patients trust, dentist needs to be involve patient in the informed consent, and dentist should explains the risks, benefits, consequences, and alternatives involved in the treatment plan. Moreover patient should also be honest to dentist and should made dentist aware of all the special needs with respect to physical health, communication, religion beliefs etc., the time when patient enters the dental office.
Moreover, trust is a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something which can be achieved with mutual understanding communicated in an unbiased and ethical manner. To conclude, it is very necessary to avoid the situations where the trust can be broken, abused, misplaced, and violated since it is very dynamic in nature and it can be easily damaged but difficult to reform and reconstruct.

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