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The Annals of African Surgery, 2011 Objective To assess Cameroonian dentists’ opinion on training and quality of dental services rendered by dental auxiliaries. Material and Methods: The questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey was conducted amongst randomly selected ...
Agbor MA, Azodo CC
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Journal of Oral Research and ReviewObjective: The objective is to evaluate dental auxiliaries’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices for the prevention of noma disease. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted over 6 months.
Mujtaba Bala +5 more
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Dental auxiliaries versus community health workers: similarities and contrasts
Revista de Odontologia da UNESPINTRODUCTION: The dental auxiliaries and the community health workers (CHWs) are practitioners that represent an important part in the Family Health Policy in Brazil and have several tasks.
Simone De Melo Costa +1 more
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Quackery in Dental Practice in Nepal
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2020 Quackery and fraud in dental practice, seen in many countries, is also rampant in Nepal, and they are unethical practices. There is a growing need for strict enforcement of government policy measures to eliminate quackery and fraudulent dental practice ...
Manoj Humagain +2 more
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019 Background: The practical solution to handle increasing awareness toward dental treatment and cost of the dental treatment is integration of dental auxiliary into dental healthcare delivery system, and hence the objective of this study was to assess the ...
Saurav Purbay +5 more
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F1000Research, 2023 Background: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is one such common disorder among dental health care personnel caused due to the entrapment neuropathy of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel.
Deepika Chenna +6 more
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Treatment needs and skill mix workforce requirements for prosthodontic care: a comparison of estimates using normative and sociodental approaches. [PDF]
, 2015 The traditional measure for assessing dental treatment needs and workforce requirements based solely on normative need (NN) has major shortcomings. The sociodental approach (SDA) to assess needs overcomes some of the shortcomings as it combines normative
Sheiham, A +11 more
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Expanding the functions of dental assistants in Bulgaria and perceptions about their role in the Bulgarian healhcare workforce [PDF]
Folia Medica, 2023 Aim: The study queries a sample of dentists and dental assistants in Bulgaria about their understanding and perceptions of Expanded Function Dental Auxiliaries (EFDA). The study considers whether expanding the skillset of dental assistants to function in
Chris S. Ivanoff +2 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on dental practice in Kerala, India: A qualitative study
Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, 2023 Background: Dentistry in India is facing many challenges owing to the increase in the number of dentists and meager job opportunities. As a majority of dental procedures are aerosol generating, the pandemic caused a huge impact on dental practice and ...
Dhanya Raghunathan +2 more
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Exploring professionalization among Brazilian oral health technicians
Human Resources for Health, 2012 Professional dental auxiliaries emerged in the early 20th century in the United States of America and quickly spread to Europe and other regions of the world.
Sanglard-Oliveira Carla +3 more
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