[Construction and implementation of oral multidisciplinary team system]

Concerning the complexities of many difficult oral diseases, how to make comprehensive diagnosis and carry out optimal treatment with high quality for an oral disease has always been the focus of clinical work. Oral multidisciplinary team (OMDT) provides new therapeutic approach for the complicated oral diseases. It is an effective supplement to the traditional specialty-oriented dental treatment mode and becomes the developmental trend of stomatology. Many difficult cases were reported to achieve good results by using multidisciplinary approach in recent years, but the complete concept system and the operation mode of OMDT have not been formed yet. On the basis of previous studies and years of clinical exploration, the author puts forward the concept of OMDT in both narrow sense and broad sense. The OMDT system was elaborately constructed and implemented from the aspects of objectives, essential requirements, organizational structure, operation mode, management framework, system guarantee, quality control and effect evaluation. To build a standardized and mature OMDT system will promote the overall level of stomatology in China.