Our office understands the importance of protecting your personal information. This office will collect, use and disclose information about you for the following purposes:
- To deliver safe and efficient patient care,
- To identify and to ensure continuous high-quality service,
- To offer and provide treatment, care and services in relationship to the oral and maxillofacial complex and dental care generally,
- To assess your health needs; to advise you of treatment options and to provide health care,
- To enable us to contact you; to establish and maintain communication with you,
- To communicate with other treating health-care providers, including specialists and general dentists who are the referring dentists and/or peripheral dentists,
- To allow us to maintain communication and contact with you to distribute health-care information and to book and confirm appointments,
- To allow us to efficiently follow-up for treatment, care and billing,
- For teaching and demonstrating purposes on an anonymous basis,
- To complete and submit dental claims for third party adjudication and payment,
- To comply with legal and regulatory requirements according to the provisions of the Regulated Health Professions Act,
- To comply with agreements/undertakings entered into voluntarily by the member with the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, including the delivery and/or review of patients’ charts in a timely fashion for regulatory and monitoring purposes,
- To permit potential purchasers, practice brokers or advisors to evaluate the dental practice, to conduct an audit in preparation for a practice sale,
- To deliver your charts and records to the dentist’s insurance carrier to enable the insurance company to assess liability and quantify damages, if any,
- To prepare materials for the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board,
- To invoice for goods and services,
- To process credit card payments,
- To collect unpaid accounts,
- To assist this office to comply with all regulatory requirements,
- To comply generally with the law.