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Why Choose BIDC?

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Bangkok International Dental Center (BIDC) is Thailand's leading for dental service provider.

Factors that differentiate BIDC from other dental clinics and hospital include:

  • JCI Accredited
  • Team of Professional Certified Dentists
  • Experienced Management
  • Sterilization & Patient Safety Focus
  • State-of-the-art Technologies
  • Transparent & Fixed Standardized Fees

JCI Accredited Dental Center

BIDC is accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI), the international section of USA's Joint Comission organization that reviews and accredits American hospitals on safety and quality. The JCI checklist includes over standards covering areas from surgical hygiene to the primary source verfication and privileging of dentists. The certification by a world-reputable third-party organization indicates BIDC's dedication and focus on quality and safety.

BIDC was first accredited in 2010 that is a remarkable accomplishment for the country. BIDC center maintains a standards-based evaluation using evident based measurements for its quality and safety processes.

Team of Professional Certified Dentists & Medical Staff

All of BIDC team of dentists are fully licensed by the Thai Dental Council to practice dentistry within Thailand. Many of our dental specialists are Board certified in their area of specialty locally or from the US, Australia, or Europe.

Our team of dentists are assigned privileges whereby each dentists is creditialed to perform only specified areas of dental treatments based on their qualifications and expertises. This ensures to patients that they are proper treated by qualified dentists who has been reviewed and evaluated. Dentists' privileges are re-reviewed every three years. Please feel free to view a summary of your dentists.
Our nurses are also verified to have undergone and passed nursing certification exams to practice in Thailand. Nurses are re-certified at every 5 years and nurses at BIDC receive English language training and ongoing continuing training and education in caring and ensuring patient safety.

Experienced Management

BIDC has been treating international patients from over 43 countries different countries since 2004. A significant percentage of BIDC's patients come from overseas specially to Thailand for their dental treatments. Facilities in place catering for international patients include:

International Call Center : full-time speaking staff fluent in English in replying enquiries online and on the phone

Accomodiations & Hotels : BIDC has a 30 room boutique hotel connected and located within BIDC building complex for international patients. The center also has alliances with hotels nearby BIDC at favorably competitive rates for our international patients on request.

On-site Dental Laboratory : Enables dentists to work quickly with dental lab technicians in delivering teeth works for quicker treatment completion and adjustments

Sterilization & Patient Safety Focus

BIDC ensure patient safety abiding by strict practice standards outlined by the JCI standards. BIDC has control checks in place to provide a clean, disinfected environment for each patient. Policies are in place to ensure that all rooms and equipment are properly set up and sterilized daily and after each use. Water used for patient treatment are ultra-violet and ozonation filtered. Protective equipments and disposable items are consistently used where possible.

Visitors and patients are enouraged to use handgel in preventing airborne infections. Our staff are tracked and monitored daily for hand hygiene adherence. Each bottle of handgel is dated and disposed if left unused within 30 days. BIDC traces cleanliness to the most smallest details including where and how general or infectious waste is disposed.

Dental instruments at BIDC undergo several rounds of processing to ensure total safety and total sterilization has been met .At every stage of our dental instrument sterilization process, indicators and measurement monitoring are done to double check and re-confirm that instruments are sterile including the use of chemical and biological test indicators.

The BIDC building was built specially to function as a dental building fitted with high power suction system throughout the building and complies with regulated laws on building and fire safety standards.

Our dental care services, patient concerns, patient safety and clinical quality measures are constantly monitored by a dedicated quality team. Dentists, nurses, staff and patients all participate in ensuring and improving BIDC's process in providing higher level of safety.

Read more on our sterilization processes are BIDC.

State-of-the-Art Technologies

BIDC believes that all our patients should have access to the latest proven diagnostic and treatment technology. Our dental clinics are equipped with only the most modern equipment in the market in order to ensure that our patients get the best diagnosis and comfort.

Read more about our the advance technologies utilized at BIDC including carl zesis endodontic microscopes, laser systems, intra-oral cameras and 3D CT Scans.

Transparent & Standardized Fees

Unlike other thailand dental clinics that markets a wide varying price range, BIDC dental fees are standardized and transparent to our patients. There are no hidden services charges or tax surcharges imposed by other thailand clinics and hospitals. Foreign patients and local patients are charged the same non-discriminatory dental fees providing our patients peace of mind.

Dental Sterilization

BIDC views sterilization at its uptmost importances:

Sterilization Policies and Controls

Sterilization Processes and Flows

Sterilization Machines and Technologies

Biological Sterilization Indicator Verification System

Sterilization Indicators

Cleanliness of Dental Instruments & Equipments

Cleanliness of Dental Treatment Rooms

Personalized Sterilization Options

BIDC Building High-powered Air Ventilation Suction System

Sterilization Policies and Controls

At BIDC, weregard hygienic standards at the highest level. BIDC always provides a safe and clean environment. BIDC imposes American JCI sterilization processes that are based on scientific evidence protocols. We employ hospital cleanliness standards and sterilization techniques.

 

At BIDC, besides meeting and exceeding cleanliness bylaws from Thailand's Ministry of Health, BIDC takes additional steps in abiding by guidelines set forth by the American standards by Center of Disease Contorls (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), ASHRAE, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), Assoication for the Advancment of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), American Dental Assoication (ADA) and the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

 

Sterilization policies and control are set up to provide a clean, disinfected environment for each patient in ensuring that all rooms and equipment are properly set up and sterilized daily and after each use. Initiatives taken for a clean and safe environment include details including ultra-violet and ozonation filtered water, disposable items, hand hygiene adherence and how general or infectious waste is disposed are looked at.

 

BIDC welcomes your questions and the opportunity to demonstrate how we handle sterilization techniques and patient protection. We want you to feel comfortable about your treatment in our office.

Sterilization Processes & Flows

Dental instruments are precision tools which require regular maintenance. All our equipments and instruments are maintained and sterilised according to international standards using CE certified sterilisation machines. Our clinical handpieces, dental units and other machines are selected not only for their technological advancements but also for their specific design focus on sterilization approaches.

heir specific design focus on sterilization approaches.

Our dental appliances are individually packed and sealed by our impulse autosealer machine then autoclaved by our pre-vacuumed autoclave units in viewpacks for each patient. Every pack of dental appliances are dated to uphold high standards of sterilisation.

BIDC's sterilization efforts goes further than sterilization standard requirements. At BIDC, single use non-woven materials are used to protect our sterilized dental instruments that are is more bacteria resistant than conventional woven wraps normally used at clinics and hospitals.

Extra steps are taken to ensure all our equipments are properly and fully sterilized. Our autoclave machines are tested daily for its effectiveness. Separate sterilization machines are kept for autoclaving instruments and clinical handpieces. Please see our sterilization machines and technologies for more details on our concentrated focus with regards to the area of sterilization. After instruments are autoclaved, instrument are re-checked, packed, dated and stored in a separate clean area

BIDC's organizes its steriization rooms in separated clean and dirty areas in preventing any potential cross-contamination of instruments. Sterilized clean instruments are kept under controlled cool temperatures and humidity 24 hours a day throughout the week in preventing the bacteria growth. Backup generators are in place should a power supply disturbance occur.

Dental Instruments & Equipments Cleaniness

Dental instruments at BIDC undergo several rounds of processing to ensure total safety and total sterilization has been met. Dental instruments are initially soak in rapid multi-enzyme detergent for pre-disinfectant cleaning. The enzymes digest all human secretions including blood, saliva, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and mucopolysaccharides that carries possible bacteria and viruses. Thereafter, the instruments are placed in ultrasonic machines to clean and remove tiny or invisible dirt trapped in instrument corners or spiral.

At every stage of our dental instrument sterilization process, indicators and measurement monitoring are done to double check and re-confirm that instruments are sterile and our sterilization machines are performing. At BIDC, mechanical measurements on our autoclaving machines are charted at every machine cycle. Temperature, light differentiates, pressure gauge readings are recorded during each pre and post vaccuum autoclaving period.

For the autoclaved dental instruments, sterile tape external indicators mark the individual packs that have undergone steam sterilization.

Additional, internal indicators using 3M Sterigage is also used to check that each parcel of critical dental instrument package has been exposed to steam at the correct temperature and time. The Steriage check is Class 5 level check, the highest level of examination, used to determine factors affecting treatment infection and death.

Biological Sterilization Indicator Verification System by 3M Attest

At BIDC, infection control and sterilizations is of top priority. Simply having pressure-steam machines or autoclaves does not garanteed total sterilization. At BIDC, our dental office use not just chemical but biological checks. The Attest Biological Rapid Monitoring System by 3M ESPE is used at BIDC to verify the effectiveness of our sterilization efforts daily.

The 3M Attest sterilization is a proven and reliable system with a 20 year product history using biological indicator system for monitoring steam sterilization. The Attest sterilizations system is used to ensure that BIDC"s sterilization controls and standards are well assured and above those of required standards.

Has a self-contained biological indicators significantly reduce the possibility of contamination, minimizing false positives and ensuring more accurate results.

Incubator automatically crushes vial to release medium, making it safer and easier to use than other systems.

14-vial capacity to meet the needs of both small and large offices.

See-through cover allows for easy observation and reading of indicator color change.

Dry-block design is pre-set to proper incubation temperature to ensure consistent, accurate results.

System is color-coded for quick reference and easy use.

Readout is available in just 3 hours, providing faster results than typical mail-in services or any conventional one day readout system

Dental Treatment Rooms Cleanliness

Dental units at BIDC are cleaned and disinfected after every single use with patient. Single-use disposable towels that contains high level disfectants are used with our dental units during cleaning.

The pre-selected high level disfectant used at BIDC is tested and clinically certifed to be effective against bacteria and staphylooccus aureus. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Psuedomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella enteric, Trichophyton mentagrophytes are disactivated within 3 minutes of contact to the disinfectant. Whilst, MRSA,VRE, staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin, AIDS (HIV), Hepatitis B, C, Influenza A2 Virus as well as Herpes simplex types 1 and 2 are disabled within 2 minutes.

Personal Sterilization Options

BIDC dental clinics also offer the option to purchase your own dental handpiece for you and/or your family’s individual use on request. This means that the handpiece is reserved, secured and autoclaved only for you and/or your family’s use during your dental visits with us.

BIDC is an amalgam-free clinic. Patients may also opt for for the use of rubber dams during amalgam fillings removal with the replacment of composite resin or white fillings in reducing mercury vapor exposure on request. At BIDC, we believe in the safe removal of amalgam filings.

Please do kindly ask our staff if you do wish to take up this personalized option at our clinic for you and your family.

BIDC Buidling High-powered Air Ventilation Suction System

The BIDC building is designed specificially to operate and function as a dental center.

The building is fitted and fully equipped with the latest high powered air suction system throughout the building and in each treatment room. This ensures that all contaminates, any mercury vapours and any harmful evaporable contents in the air are safely removed creating a safe environment for our patients.

Bangkok Information

Around and About Bangkok Dental Center

Areas of Interests

 

Bangkok Tourists, Central

Central Department Store

The Central Plaza Lat Phrao Complex houses the Central Department Store and mini cinema theatres amongst countless boutiques and shops. Its cafes and food court are good places for great food.

 

 

Jatujak, Chatuchak, Bangkok weekend market

Weekend Chatuchak Market

For weekend stays, you could try your hand at bargaining and shopping at the Chatuchak Weekend Market, just a 10-minute ride from our main clinic. Set amidst a maze of lanes, the Market features everything under the sun including household items, clothings, plants and animals.

Bangkok Tourist Information

Here are some useful resources for our overseas guests for getting around and about Thailand.

 

Bangkok Tourism, TAT Logo

Tourism Authority of Thailand

Providing tourist information on places to visits and getting around Bangkok and Thailand

 

 

Bangkok Map, Thailand Map

Bangkok Maps

A useful site for maps on Bangkok and certain regions of Thailand. Includes the BTS map.

 

www.AndaDhevi.com : Hotel and Resort in Krabi, Thailand

www.bangkokdentalhome.com : Modern Dental clinic near Jatujak weekend market in Bangkok, Thailand

www.smilesignature.com : Dental promotions and packages at Siam Square dental clinic in Thailand