Oral health
represents an essential component of health
maintenance because of the negative impact that
different ore-dental conditions have on the general
health status and their consequences. Doctor-patient
communication plays a very important role in
maintaining the oral health status, the practitioner
being able to offer attention and moral support for
the patient in order to obtain a satisfactory
therapeutical result. Good communication increases
the frequency of visits to the dentist, diminuishes
anxiety and the practitioner has to understand human
behaviuor in order to modelate it for oral health
promotion and to develop a succesful practice. Once
a patient is educated and is giving oral health the
proper attention one will observe the benefic
effects on social grounds gathered in the general
well-being and the increase of life quality.
Communication in
medical practice means assuming a high communicative
competence that represents a priority for
proffessionals in the medical field, especially for
doctors. Thus, it means recognizing and decoding
messages transmitted by the patient on one hand and
using adecquate ways of communication in order to
transmit informations to the patient on the other
hand.
Key words: oral health, doctor-patient
communication, education, feedback.