Question

1. Do you believe that the use of assistants and aides impacts the quality of healthcare?
2. The book does not discuss the "Dental Therapist". What do you think about this new profession?
3. Where do you think it would be most useful?

Answer 1

Answer

✓ yes, I do believe that the use of assistant and aides impacts the quality of healthcare. Infact, assistance will be a great advantage for improving the patients treatment and having good support during the treatment. They aid in preparing the necessary processes, support operations, with right equipment and medical aid, they checkup the patients, perform restorative activities, and keep the records to consult the doctors.

Dental therapist, is the new profession, growing globally, a dentist therapist is a member of the team of dentists, or dental team, who are expertise in their field and are given team assignment to treat patients of healthcare units. Dental therapist assist the dentist or seniors by performing activities that are basic, viz, restorative and preventive care, especially to the youngsters, and children, instruct them to maintain dental hygiene and cleanliness habits, to protect their mouth and teeth.

Dental therapist is useful for healthcare dental camps, where large number of people are treated and are called for free checkups. These therapist can be useful in large healthcare units, where thousands of patients are witnessed Every week. They can ease the checkup process and help the doctors give right medicine with right treatment and save time, with increased efficiency.