dental personnel

• includes various providers of dental care who have different roles, functions and periods of training and who combine to treat patients

  DENTAL TEAM
• a person licensed to practice dentistry under the laws of the appropriate state, province, territory, or nation

  DENTIST
• are concerned with the prevention and control of the diseases of the oral cavity and the treatment of unfavorable conditions resulting from these diseases, from trauma, or from inherent malformations

  Dentists
• are legally entitled to diagnose and treat patients independently, to prescribe certain drugs, and to employ and supervise auxiliary personnel

  dentist
• dentist must have?

  • completion of a specified period of professional education in an approved institution - demonstration of competence - evidence of satisfactory personal qualities
• the process by which an agency of government grants permission to those meeting predetermined qualifications to engage in a given occupation and use a particular title, or by which it grants permission to institutions to perform specified functions

  licensure
• the process by which qualified individuals are listed on an official roster maintained by a governmental agency

  Registration
• generic term for all persons who assist the dentist in treating patients

  DENTAL AUXILIARIES
• carry out intra-oral procedures in the direct treatment of patients

  Operating dental auxiliary
• does not carry out intra-oral procedures in the direct treatment of patients

  Non-operating dental auxiliary
• OPERATING DENTAL AUXILIARY 


  • Dental hygienist • Dental therapist • Dental nurse
• NON – OPERATING DENTAL AUXILIARY


  • Dental assistant • Dental Laboratory technician
• an operating auxiliary licensed and registered to practice dental hygiene under the laws of the appropriate state, province, territory or nation

  DENTAL HYGIENIST
• the dental profession began to seek what Dr. Alfred Fones termed a subspecialist, whose primary function would be to serve in the prevention of dental disease.


  1900
• Fones conceptualized this subspecialty as one of training in health care education and oral prophylaxis, completely uninvolved with the treatment of disease

  1900
• Fones put this into practice by training his assistant to provide these preventive services for his patients;

  1906
• He subsequently developed a course for dental hygienist


  1913
• the Ohio College of Dental Surgery had developed a program for dental hygienists, however as a result of strong pressure from local dentists, the program was closed

  1910
• the Connecticut Dental Practice Act required licensure for dental hygiene

  1915
• all programs were required to be 2 or 4 years in length and based within a college or a university


  1940
• the ADA Council on dental education develop requirements for the accrediting of a school of dental hygiene, and since 1952 accreditation by the ADA Commission on Dental Accreditation Programs has been required for all schools offering programs in dental hygiene.


  1947
• dental hygiene was the only dental auxiliary acknowledged in the state dental practice acts


  1969
• Dental hygiene licensure is required by the state after at least 2 years of training, and the profession is regulated by the state boards of dentistry through examination 


  1969
• The American Dental Hygienist Association (ADHA) has been the representative association


  1969
• ADHA history- Started in 1923, when 46 dental hygienist met in Cleveland to discuss common professional issues


  1969
• Today, advanced education is also offered for DH, like master's degree with specialized training in public health, education, research, or administration

  1969
• a non-operating auxiliary who assists the dentist or dental hygienist in treating patients but who is not permitted to treat patients independently

  DENTAL ASSISTANT
• works under the direct supervision of a licensed dentist ◦ their duties include immediate chairside assistance in the handling of dental equipment and materials used by the dentist or dental hygienist

  DENTAL ASSISTANT
• FIRST DENTALL ASSISTANT WAS HIRED IN ?

  1885
• The first dental assistant was hired in 1885 by Dr. C. Edmund Kells of New Orleanss, USA
• Kells hired a woman as a “Lady in attendance" so that female patients respectably come to his office Unattended
• It was found out that they can perform routine dental chores in the operatory and business office

  DENTAL ASSISTANT
• They continued to serve until WWII, because of lack of labor. The advent of four-handed sit down dentistry in the 1960s necessitated the dental assistants
• the US federal government supported a grant program that was designed to train dental students to work using the concept of four-handed dentistry


  1961
• first organization of dental assistants

  Education and Efficiency Society
• The first organization of dental assistants, the Education and Efficiency Society, was formed in 1921 by Juliette Southard in New York City
• Others began to form, and in 1924 the societies met together for the first time on a national level
• remains the recognized association

  American Dental Assistants Association (ADAA)
• ADAA Met with ADA

  1924
• ADAA motto


  “education, efficiency, loyalty and service”