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Regulation and control
Published in Geraldine Lee-Treweek, Tom Heller, Hilary MacQueen, Julie Stone, Sue Spurr, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Structures and Safeguards, 2020
Julie Stone, Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Price (2002) argues that protection of function is not conducive to fluidity in terms of allocating tasks and roles. He goes on to argue that protection of function runs counter to the government’s recent commitment to expand the role that allied health professionals play in health and social care, allowing them to use their skills flexibly and creatively for the benefit of the patient (Department of Health, 2001b). What tends to happen is that a sub-profession arises, for example dental hygienists.
Bahrain
Published in Salah Hassan, Kidd Michael, Family Practice In The Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2018
Faisal Abdullatif Alnasir, Adel Al-Sayyad
Preventive services include maternal and child health services, such as antenatal services, periodic child screening, immunization, postnatal and post-abortion services, family planning, periodic women checkups, premarital services, and ultrasound examination for pregnant women. In addition, oral health services by a dental hygienist are provided and services include various preventive programmes like fissure sealant, fluoride application, educational activities, maternal and child dental services, and oral health services for people with diabetes, the elderly and other clients with special needs. Other supportive services also are available in certain health centres including physiotherapy and social services. Health promotion services are provided via community participation and health education by health promotion specialists.17
The General Dental Council
Published in Paul Lambden, Dental Law and Ethics, 2018
Curricula are also published by the GDC for the courses in dental therapy and dental hygiene.4 Training for the diplomas in this subject has traditionally taken place within university dental schools. However, recently training courses have been established outside these recognised venues and qualifying examinations have been established through the surgical Royal Colleges and their faculties. A dental hygienist works in all branches of dentistry but a dental therapist is only permitted to work in dental departments of NHS hospitals or in community dental clinics. Some schools for dental auxiliaries run a combined course so that a student qualifies after two and a half years as a therapist as well as a hygienist. All courses and examinations for auxiliaries are approved in the same way as the undergraduate courses for dentists, by appointing visitors from the GDC to assess the course and examination. Auxiliaries are now known as Professionals Complementary to Dentistry (PCD) and have a similar ethical obligation to keep up to date and maintain competence throughout their practising lifetime.
General dentists staffing requirement based on workload in the public dental health centers in Turkey
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2022
‘Change of roles’ between healthcare professionals performing different jobs is an issue considered to fill the operational gaps in the available workforce or reduce workforce costs. ‘Change of roles’ may be defined as expanding the job description of a professional group by replacing the same group with another or dividing the group into professional segments [46]. For example, certain preventive dental health services may be provided by well-trained dental hygienists rather than dentists. The dentist-to-dental hygienist ratio was 18:1 in Turkey, whereas this ratio was 11:1 among the member countries of the European Economic Area [9,47], which indicates that the number of dental hygienists is insufficient in Turkey and needs to be re-planned. Furthermore, dental hygienists could be trained to provide most of the preventive services. For this, however, the curricula of the related departments in universities should be redesigned, relevant changes should be made to the current legislation, and strategic approaches should be deployed in planning the human resource of dental services.
Potential airborne asbestos exposures in dentistry: a comprehensive review and risk assessment
Published in Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2021
A. Michael Ierardi, Claire Mathis, Ania Urban, Neva Jacobs, Brent Finley, Shannon Gaffney
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), as of 2018, there were approximately 802,300 dental personnel, including dentists (155,000), dental laboratory technicians (81,500), dental hygienists (219,800), and dental assistants (346,000), in the U.S. (Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] 2019a, 2019b, 2019c, 2019d). Dentists diagnose and treat medical issues in patients’ teeth, gums, and other parts of the mouth, typically in an office setting (Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] 2019d). These professionals may also undergo training during dental school to learn how to create dental fixtures like crowns and bridges, and may perform such tasks while practicing as a licensed dentist. Dental laboratory technicians are mainly responsible for constructing, fitting, and/or repairing dental fixtures in laboratories (Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] 2019a). Dental hygienists largely work in dentists’ offices, where they examine patients for indications of oral disease and provide oral hygiene preventive care (Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] 2019c). Dental assistants generally provide patient care, take X-rays, maintain records, and perform other administrative tasks in dentists’ offices, such as scheduling appointments (Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] 2019b).
Dental health care workers’ attitude towards patients with substance use disorders in medically assisted rehabilitation (MAR)
Published in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2021
Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm, Ferda Özkaya, Jorma Virtanen, Lars Thore Fadnes
Table 1 depicts dental health care workers’ background factors according to professional status. In total, 187 dental health care workers (26% dental hygienists and 74% dentists) participated in the present study. The overall response rate was 54% (187/344). Non-response analyses revealed that the gender and age distribution of dental hygienists and dentists who responded to this survey corresponded with the distribution of those invited to participate (i.e. the census of dentists and dental hygienists in the two counties). The majority of both dental hygienists (95%) and dentists (80%) were females, whereas 55% of dental hygienists versus 49% of dentists belonged to the older age group (42-66 years). Corresponding figures for those who reported work experience less than one year were 10% and 2%.