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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
Academics for dental primary care
1University of Birmingham School of Dentistry, St. Chad's Queensway, UK. f.j.t.burke@dental.gla.ac.uk
Abstract:
Driven by the need to address integrated dental care, many UK dental schools have recognised the advantages of teaching dental practice, or dental primary care (DPC), as a separate and defined subject area. In such schools, DPC may be taught alongside specialist subjects such as restorative dentistry, oral surgery, oral medicine and those traditionally forming elements of the dental undergraduate curriculum. As a result, departments or units of general dental practice or DPC have been established.
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