UNLABELLED Offering patients a broad range of services, whilst inspiring patient confidence and reducing their anxiety and waiting time, is an advantage for a general dental practitioner wishing to perform simple biopsies. But which lesions need a biopsy, which lesions are suitable to biopsy in practice, and how should this be done? This article covers the basic knowledge and technical skills r...

UNLABELLED The number of kidney patients is increasing in all developed countries, mainly due to the increase in patients with type II diabetes. These patients may be asked by their renal physician to attend their general dental practitioner for an oral review prior to undergoing further renal treatment. Dental surgeons working in the primary care setting will be required to manage patients who...

INTRODUCTION Dental injuries represent the most common claims against the anaesthesiologists. Dental lesions are frequent complications of orotracheal intubation and major causal factors are, firstly, preexisting poor dentition, and, secondly, difficult laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation. The aim of this work was to prioritize propositions for prevention in perianaesthetic dental injury and f...

This pilot study evaluates the surface roughness of monolithic zirconia crowns after chairside polishing by different dental practitioner groups. Four practitioner groups (group I: dental clinical students (n = 6); group II: dentists < 2 years post-qualification experience (n = 6); group III: dentists > 2 years post-qualification experience (n = 6) and group IV: dental technicians (n = 6)) were...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relation between self-assessed dental status, oral behavior, dental anxiety, and DMF scores. The study was conducted among young army personnel (eighteen to twenty-one years old) who arrived at a single military dental clinic for dental screening. A questionnaire was used to collect the data anonymously. The questionnaire included self-assessment of...

Vishal Kabre1, Keerthilatha M Pai2, Komal Smriti3, Sakshi Kamra3 1Private Practitioner, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal University, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal University, Karnataka, India, 3Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine and...

Dentists are self-selected for visual and kinesthetic learning preferences. Watching another practitioner perform treatment can be incredibly didactic, both before and after learning the procedure. This missing part of dental education has the capacity to play a tremendous role in dental education for all levels of practitioner. Dental students in their clinical years begin to realize the meani...

AIM To evaluate the attitudes of parents of 3 to 8 years old children with cleft lip and palate towards the provision of pediatric dental health care and assess the experience of dentistry in general dental practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire was distributed to parents of 100 children in the age group of 3 to 8 years old with cleft lip and palate who visited the cleft lip and pala...

This chapter introduces the practitioner to basic legal principles and concepts relating to periodontal diagnosis, treatment, referral and the effects of emerging technologies on periodontal legal issues. An overview of periodontal evidence in the courtroom is also included. The biological foundation of periodontics is crucial to successful restorative dentistry. Indeed, knowledge of the interr...

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Dental Hygiene at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dental Hygiene Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Darby, Michele Leonardi, "The Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner at the Master's-De...