Bespiegelingen over verantwoordelijkheid in de mondzorg
DOI: 10.5177/ntvt.2012.05.11261 Bladzijden: 233-235De studie tandheelkunde is uitgebreid tot 6 jaar om onder andere de verantwoordelijkheid te kunnen dragen voor de eerstelijnsmondzorg in een brede medische context. Het is de taak van de opleidingen tandheelkunde deze doelstelling te realiseren. Een tandarts-nieuwe stijl dient alle (peri-)orale aandoeningen en orale symptomen van systemische ziekten te (her)kennen en mondzorg te kunnen verlenen aan medisch gecompromitteerden. Het accepteren van deze verantwoordelijkheid is noodzakelijk om van de tandheelkunde mondzorg te maken en om tandartsen op te waarderen tot mondartsen.
Contemplations on responsibility for oral healthcare
The academic dental education in The Netherlands has been extended to 6 years, among other reasons in order to make it possible for responsibility for oral healthcare to be borne in a wide medical context. It is the job of the 3 national dental schools to make this happen. The new dentist should know and recognize all (peri-)oral disorders and oral symptoms of systemic diseases, and he should be able to deliver oral healthcare to medically compromised patients. Accepting this responsibility is required for dentistry to be transformed into medical oral healthcare and for dentists to be upgraded to oral physicians.
Contemplations on responsibility for oral healthcare
The academic dental education in The Netherlands has been extended to 6 years, among other reasons in order to make it possible for responsibility for oral healthcare to be borne in a wide medical context. It is the job of the 3 national dental schools to make this happen. The new dentist should know and recognize all (peri-)oral disorders and oral symptoms of systemic diseases, and he should be able to deliver oral healthcare to medically compromised patients. Accepting this responsibility is required for dentistry to be transformed into medical oral healthcare and for dentists to be upgraded to oral physicians.