Criteria mapping for the fractured permanent incisor.

Since hospital dental departments currently are regulated by the same quality assurance guidelines as other hospital departments, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations now requires that dental departments review and evaluate the quality of care they deliver. Criteria mapping is an audit method that builds logic and decision making into this review process. This method was field tested on patients having fractures of anterior teeth. Statistically significant results were produced using the criteria map developed by this study; both evaluators scored the same in 98.6% of the criteria reviewed.