A Way of Establishing the Clinical Practice Guideline for Prosthodontics-What's the Clinical Practice Guideline-

Clinical practice guidelines are the supporting tool for decision-making in medical and dental practice. It is a duty of the academic societies of medicine and dentistry, including Japan Prosthodontic Society, to establish and publish the evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. This article deals with the essential knowledge of the clinical practices guideline and the desirable methods of making the guideline for preparing the high-quality clinical practice guideline for prosthodontics.