Monitoring & Inspection Department
The monitoring and inspection/enforcement units carries out various activities such as Publicity, Scheduled and Unscheduled Visits and Disciplinary Functions
Publicity
The department in collaboration with corporate affairs units come up with and organize different enlightenment programmes via diverse platform to reach out to the public as well as the professionals. Jingles, talk-shows and ads are made through social media to engage the public on oral health issues and sensitize them.
The essence of this is to create great awareness on the activities of the monitoring and enforcement arm of the Dental Therapists Registration Board of Nigeria and to create the much awareness of the professions and its important in Oral Health Care services in Nigeria and the world as a whole
SCHEDULED & UNSCHEDULED VISITS TO HOSPITALS’ DENTAL CLINICS & CENTRES:
The Units also carry out unscheduled visit to various dental departments in hospitals, dental clinics & centres across the nation. This visits are mostly done to checkmate and reduce the number of people practicing as quarks in this field of dentistry.
The scheduled visit are done to monitor the dental departments in hospitals, dental clinics, dental centres as well as professionals practising in Nigeria with valid registration and licenses.
It is also used to sensitize then on the responsibilities of the professionals and the Board as regulatory body overseeing their professional conducts and ethics.
DISCIPLINARY FUNCTIONS
The Dental Therapists Registration Board of Nigeria (DThRBN) also wishes to state that its disciplinary activities are on-going. The general public can report to the Board through its monitoring and Inspections/Enforcement unit any act(s) of malpractice or negligence committed against them by registered Dental Therapist Officers, Dental Therapists or Dental Surgery Assistants/Technicians.
Such reports can be made at the headquarter Office in Lagos, Liaison Office in Abuja or any of our zonal offices in Anambra, Ekiti, Port Harcourt, Kano, Katsina and Zamfara States. Addresses and contacts are on our Contact Us in the home page.
Complaints can also be sent to info@dthbn.gov.ng and monitoring@dthbn.gov.ng
We also solicit the cooperation and support of all stake holders in this effort to raise and maintain the best global standard of oral health care services rendered to the people, also to get rid of quacks in our health system.
Email: monitoring@dthbn.gov.ng
Contact: +234 805 572 8747 (Calls & WhatsApp)