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Published on: February 2, 2020
How can we provide person-centred dental care?
N Apelian1, J N Vergnes1,2, R Hovey1
1Division of Oral Health and Society, Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, 2001 McGill College, Montréal, Québec, H3A 1G1, Canada.
Abstract:
Patient- or person-centred care is the current paradigm in the health profession yet there is still no clear understanding of what it means or how it could be implemented in dentistry. Building on a previously proposed person-centred model in clinical dentistry, in this article a person-centred dental clinical approach is presented. The approach consists of three guiding principles - humility, hospitality and mindfulness - that influence the different processes of the dental clinical encounter: connecting, examining, sharing, and intervening. The presented approach provides a rich opportunity for dentists to fine tune their own clinical approach in order to keep up with the upcoming expectations of their patients.
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