[Oral health as a factor of primary prevention of postinfectious complications]

[On the issue of normative legal regulation of the work of a doctor in a dental office of a multidisciplinary hospital]

OBJECTIVE

The purpose of the study is to investigate the existing normative legal documents governing the activities of doctors specializing in «dentistry», providing medical care in a multidisciplinary hospital.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

The normative legal coverage of medical workers' activities on delivering dental care for adult population with infectious diseases in stationary conditions for a thirty-year period was analyzed. The research and information method and content analysis were used.

RESULTS

The existing regulatory legal framework governing the activities of medical workers does not contain time standards for one patient who is on inpatient treatment to visit doctors specializing in «dentistry» in a multidisciplinary hospital, which does not correspond with modern requirements and does not allow determining the workload norms and standard numbers of these specialists.

CONCLUSION

Despite the presented modern possibilities of introducing the latest technologies and intensifying the activities of doctors specializing in «dentistry» on an outpatient basis, the organization of medical care and the delivering of dental services in a hospital including to infectious patients require further improvement.