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senario You have just been appointed as Chief Dental Officer for a low-income country of seven...

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You have just been appointed as Chief Dental Officer for a low-income country of seven million people called NeverLand. This country of NeverLand has a very young population. Almost half (45%) of the population is aged 15 years of age and under. There is a simple but comprehensive educational system where all children can attend a local school from the age of six up to 15 years of age.
An international university has been supporting your country and recently conducted a national survey of school childrens’ oral health. You have been presented with survey data which show that 90% of children have dental caries at ICCMS score 2 and above (caries in enamel or worse); 60% have ICCMS 3 and above and 20% have ICCMs 5 and above. Between 10% and 15% of children across all ages report experiencing pain from their teeth in the past three months.
Children enter school at six years of age with an average of three teeth affected by dental caries (range 0-12).
Disease levels increase with age and then fall during the transition from a primary to a secondary/permanent dentition, but rise again so that on leaving school 15-year- old children have an average of four teeth affected by decay (DT=4) and overall a mean caries of DMFT=5. No children have received fillings.
The water supply comes from local sources and is not fluoridated. Toothbrushes are increasingly being used; however, toothpaste is not always available outside of the capital city.
Dental services are limited with only 20 dentists located in the capital city, where about 20% of the population is based, paying occasional visits to rural areas using one mobile dental caravan to provide care.
The country has a medical school but there is no dental education. All the dentists in the country have trained abroad.
Dental nurses are trained on the job and there are no other dental care professionals (dental auxiliaries) in the country.
The country does have trained community health workers who are based across the country including rural areas who promote health and help people to access care. Finally, the country has just established a registration council for health professionals and want to develop guidance on professionalism for dentists.
1-Summarise the needs in Country and identify what other information you would like to collect, justifying why, so that you can plan for the whole population.
2-What is your plan of action to promote oral health across the child population in a whole population approach? Please outline your plan in line with the ‘five action areas’ of the Ottawa Charter (WHO, 1986). (l
In doing so, very briefly please outline what other health workers you would collaborate with in promoting oral health and why.
3-What plans will you put in place to ensure that accessible dental services are available for the whole population using Penchansky & Thomas’s (1981) dimensions of access (5As).
Please also outline your plan to developing and using the oral and dental workforce to meet the needs of the population.

4-List 10 important aspects of professionalism for the dental profession which you will recommend to the new registration body for dentists. Please provide one practical example for each of the ten points.

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What is Dental Professionalism ?

Based on the defination it is quite simple, when conduct qualities that indicates a professional person, by adding dental aspects to it- that person can be known as with Dental profession.

According to American Dental Education Association that have their own codes of professionalism and ethics and when we talk about the aspects of dental profession we come across knowing the different value required in a person to be known as a dental professionalist.

The following are some of the major aspect that are being considered in other countries regarding a dental profession:

  • Fairness : What actually fairness means ? It generally refers to giving their best efforts in order to treat each and every patient, it also includes staff and collegues to be treated fairly without prejuidice. A professional person can't differentiate between its patient on the basis that one is known to him and other is just a stranger i.e patient he is suppose to treat each and every patient with equal fairness for both.
  • Competence : A person to be in a Dental profession must requires certain degree of competence that assign him with the position of a dental profession i.e it generally refered to a certified degree which he need to acquire through competing with other individual fighting for the same position and profession.
  • Integrity : The profession of a dental person must also comprised with the integrity factor as he is always suppose to give priority to its patient by always putting them first, as sometimes a person just notice the opportunities with the position rather than the concern with the patient.
  • Responsibility : A person with dental profession is have some responsibility towards its patients and also towards its profession i.e to fulfill its responsibility by treating patient in a right and just way without seeking any financial opportunity from them.
  • Respect : The profession of a dentist must always have respect with regards to its patient by maintaining confidentiality of its health related information and protecting patient by handling them with care. it includes respecting their rights in choosing their correct course of treatment with a right standard of parameter.  

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