Preparing for Dental Practice by Ruth Freeman (English) Paperback Book

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This book helps dental students to prepare for the difficult transition into dental primary care. It provides a background to the holistic approach senior students are encouraged to use when identifying treatment needs and covers the integration of treatment and its planning, aspects of dental team building, practice selection and management matters.

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This book prepares dental students and vocational dental practitioners for primary dental practice. It will also be helpful to general dental practitioners to enable them to undertake continuing professional development. The book provides a background to the holistic approach that dentists need to use when identifying treatment needs, and covers the integration of treatment and its planning, aspects of dental team building, practice selection and managementmatters. The first chapter examines issues in relation to career choices, the location of the practice together with the means by which access to dental care may be increased. Chapters 2and 3 take the reader from outside to inside the dental practice to examine relationships within the practice. This includes those with the patient as well as the dental team. The fourth chapter describes clinical excellence in primary dental care by examining clinical decision-making, the need for referral as well as the place of prevention and restorative philosophies in treatment of patients. The last chapters examine the business of dental practice and suggest future pathways for thenewly qualified dental practitioner.

Author Biography

F J Trevor Burke is a Professor of Primary Dental Care, University of Birmingham School of Dentistry, UK. Ruth Freeman is a Professor of Dental Public Health, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Table of Contents

1: The first job2: Practice building - relationships around the patient3: Practice building - relationships within the practice4: Practice building - the need for excellence in treatment5: Essential business principles of dental practice6: The future

Review

This text achieves its stated aim of holistically combining the business of practice with the science of clinical dentistry and the humanity of patient care . . . This textbook is essential reading for the target readership and will prove a popular addition to the libraries of UK dental schools. * Dental Update *

Long Description

This book prepares dental students and vocational dental practitioners for primary dental practice. It will also be helpful to general dental practitioners to enable them to undertake continuing professional development. The book provides a background to the holistic approach that dentists need to use when identifying treatment needs, and covers the integration of treatment and its planning, aspects of dental team building, practice selection and managementmatters. The first chapter examines issues in relation to career choices, the location of the practice together with the means by which access to dental care may be increased. Chapters 2 and 3 take the reader from outside to inside the dental practice to examine relationships withinthe practice. This includes those with the patient as well as the dental team. The fourth chapter describes clinical excellence in primary dental care by examining clinical decision-making, the need for referral as well as the place of prevention and restorative philosophies in treatment of patients. The last chapters examine the business of dental practice and suggest future pathways for the newly qualified dental practitioner.

Review Quote

This text achieves its stated aim of holistically combining the business of practice with the science of clinical dentistry and the humanity of patient care . . . This textbook is essential reading for the target readership and will prove a popular addition to the libraries of UK dental schools.

Promotional "Headline"

1. The first job 2. Practice building - relationships around the patient 3. Practice building - relationships within the practice 4. Practice building - the need for excellence in treatment 5. Essential business principles of dental practice 6. The future

Feature

Prepares final year undergraduates and vocational dental practitioners for the difficult transition into primary careAids understanding of the integration of the many aspects of dental primary careEncourages an holistic approach to care in line with current teaching methods

Details ISBN0198508646 Author Trevor Burke Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2004 ISBN-10 0198508646 ISBN-13 9780198508649 Format Paperback Publication Date 2004-09-16 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 617.6 Edition 1st Language English Media Book Pages 282 Short Title PREPARING DENTAL PRAC P DOI 10.1604/9780198508649 UK Release Date 2004-09-16 AU Release Date 2004-09-16 NZ Release Date 2004-09-16 Illustrations numerous black & white photographs and line illustrations Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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