CASE STUDY - DEBATE

Read the case study below and then express your opinion:
1. How would you have settled the case and why? (attention to if-clauses!) In your answers agree or disagree with your colleagues by hitting "reply" to their comments.


Dental neglect – but whose? - dental case study
03 July 2009 http://www.mddus.com/mddus/news-and-media/case-of-the-month/dental-neglect-–-but-whose.aspx
Mr M had worked for the same dental practice for 35 years and was looking forward to his retirement.
One morning a letter of claim arrived at the surgery from solicitors representing a patient Mr M had treated for over 20 years from the age of four.
Mr M remembered D well as he attended over 70 times in the period that he was a patient at the surgery. His notes constituted a long list of caries and fillings with occasional antibiotics and, in the later teen years, numerous root canal treatments and crowns. In the claim it was alleged that many of the fillings and treatments were incomplete and required to be re-filled and crowned.
The patient also alleged that he was never given any advice on diet or oral hygiene. Nor was he ever referred to the dental hospital where he might have been offered preventative treatment such as fluoride washes and sealants. Such measures might have prevented the extensive dental decay suffered by D

Breaking bad news: MOUTH SCREENING CHECKS

 Read the article on Free checks in Edinburgh to raise awareness of mouth cancer.


Then do the following:

1. Supposing you were one of the dentists, what questions would you ask to find out the factors likely to have triggered mouth cancer?

2. How exactly would you  break the news to the patient who presented such signs? Imagine you have in front of you such a patient, address him/her directly!

3. What one major initiative would you take in our country to promote oral health?

Arguments for and against TOOTH JEWELLERY

Esthetic dentistry boasts that tooth „crystals have a special coating on the back and their face reflects the light and makes it sparkle like a diamond”.

YOU ARE A DENTIST and have to advise a teenage girl who is still hesitant whether to have tooth jewellery or not. Bring one argument (!!) either for or against tooth jewellery. Start your comment: I think YOU should........... (then bring the argument and support it adequately)

Dentures fun

Teeth from Noreen Fitzgerald on Vimeo.

Fun-break: Do you know other joke, clip, incident or other funny situations linked with your future profession? Let us know about it here with a short presentation of the content.

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE

1. According to the video – how can you find out if you have brushed your teeth thoroughly?

2. How long should you brush your teeth according to the video? Do you agree or not?

3. Can you develop on another aspect of time/tooth-brush/brushing technique that you learnt about in Preventology? (Try to write about a differenta aspect than that presented by your colleague/s.

Below is an advertisement of Waterpick waterfloss. What do you think of it?

Truth vs Myths about Dental Procedures

Read the article on The Truth Behind Major Dentist Myths (click on the title link)

Then answer the following questions:

1. What new thing (even vocabulary) about dental procedures have you learnt from the article?

2. What do you think the article means by: “modern anesthetizing techniques not traditionally taught in dental schools?” (you may make enquiries, even talk to your teachers and practitioners about this)

3. Do you know one other myth about dental health?

VOCABULARY QUIZ

Stomatology on PhotoPeach

General health issues - what do they mean for our teeth?

Read the article on “Excess sugar linked with heart disease death”

Watch the video on being overweight, below:

1.       1. What is your opinion on sugar consumption in your area/age group and what are the implications,  from the point of view of the current study?

2.      2.  Why should you as a future dentist be aware of these two topics?
      3.Do you know about other such strange legally enforced health issues?
      4. What would you promote as a must, stomatologically speaking, if you had the power and why?
 

Dentists in the media

In the videoclip below Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison. How are dentists portrayed in the media? Pick up one example (movie, scene in a movie, journals, newspapers, TV, EXCEPT specialized journals and literature)and tell us about it.

Low-cost dental care

This article, which we have discussed in class, points to a major issue in dental care: expensive, unaffordable treatments as well as lack of highly-qualified professionals in many regions of the world.

Do you think we have similar problems in our country/regions of the country?

Watch the videoclip on Non-profit dental care providing.


What type of dental care is mentioned here? Menion one aspec that impressed you.
What kind of discount dental  care was/is available in Romania, for who, and where, why?


Read carefully the previous answers before you write your own since only new ideas will be published.
You can also refer to situations in different countries.