Whether your annual cash receipts exceed million-dollar mark or you are at a more modest level, fact remains same - you are running a business. You are leader and it is your responsibility to set quality standards.

The pro-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus said that one can never step in same river twice. He meant that world is a place of constant change; so, too, is your dental practice. By having an established set of quality standards that act as an anchor, your business can move ahead when waters are smooth and ride it out during storms that periodically blow through every practice.

There are eight essentials that really ought to be in place for a practice to qualify as truly quality-minded:

What is ELISA test for HIV ?-- Whenever any organism enters body, immune system produces antibodies to it. Hence presence of these antibodies is an indirect evidence of infection. ELISA test for HIV is a test that detects antibodies to HIV. A positive ELISA test is therefore an indirect evidence of HIV infection. However body takes 6 weeks to 3 months to produce antibodies. Thus even after infection test becomes positive only after 6 weeks to 3 months. This period is called as window period. During this period patient is infective but test is negative. Should a single ELISA test positive report be taken as an evidence of HIV infection ?-- In case of ELISA positive; either test is repeated or a more specific test like Western Blot is done to confirm diagnosis.