Utilización de la "enfermera dental" para mejorar el plan de estudios de una faculdad de ontología

Abstract

Two fundamental facts are brought out from the adequate use of auxiliary personnel by the dental student in the development of the study plan: a) the diversification of knowledge, resulting from the opportunity for study and experience in all areas of the profession, which will provide him with a wider and more complete practice as a general dentist, and b) the formation of a quicker, fuller and more inquisitive mind in the future professional person, which will broaden the future horizon of dentistry, opening up the field to true changes

Using auxiliary personnel as a means to update the study plan clearly reveals the tremendous need for strengthening departments of continuing education which can provide opportunities for renovation and updating of knowledge, especially to the generations of dentists educated under different plans of study. It is not necessary to emphasize the convenience of using such personnel in Public Health services because the benefit they provide was shown 49 years ago, but it is difficult to explain why they have not been used all over the world. Some people feel that dentistry is delaying in doing so

Among the aternatives proposed to assist health services,the most adequate means recommended is periodic supervision -for example, each month in a predetermined area. This way, the dentist will devote part of his time to the supervision of the auxiliaries' work in his...(AU)