Dentistry general questions Flashcards
Motivation for dentistry
- Provides aid to people with oral pain and disease.
- It allows you to help and give service to the community.
- It allows you to build relationships with people you are helping as you get to see them again and again.
- I love dental science and I think learning about the muscle nerves and tissues of the oral environment will be very interesting.
- I love that in dentistry you are always learning and refining your techniques and I have a strong drive to explore new dental fields such as orthodontics and cosmetic dentistry.
Why dentistry and not medicine or dental nursing or hygenist
Dentistry is a very focused and specialised degree that allows you to focus in depth on the oral environments of patients. In medicine you have a large number of topics that you cover however you only learn what is necessary. In dentistry you have the opportunity to learn things in great detail and truly become a specialist in your own area. Dental clinicians also get the opportunity to build a relationship with your patients. Medical staff unfortunately do not have the same chance as they will see 100s of patients in a day. I think this gives dentists a real opportunity to make a positive impression on peoples lives over long term through dentistry but also just through being a positive individual who is friendly and kind. Dentistry allows you to as to affect people’s outlook on their health as you build repour and relationship you can change perception of the dental field and hopefully create a positive perception of going to the dentist. As far as for nursing I feel that nurses are extremely important to the dental team however I am very interested in the life long learning and ability to direct your study associated with dentistry. I would like to directly perform treatment myself I think I would get a lot of satisfaction relieve pain in the patient helping them with confidence in their look.
Whens a time you have demonstrated good communication skills
When have you demonstrated manual dexterity?
Why dundee dentistry?
- Dundee is a university with excellent dental facilities that also function as a dental hospital. This means not only do we work on our own learning but we are also able to help provide care to others while we learn.
- I also love the early patient contact in semester 2 I think it is important to ensure that students learn dentistry with a patient focused outlook so that they are able to give the best treatment possible. This also allows us to work on our professionalism from the start and will set a great baseline for treating all types of patients.
- Dundee university gives you the opportunity to work in conjunction with the other dental health teams to simulate the kind of interactions you will have with other health professions in the wider health community.
- The 4D curriculum is set up in a way that promotes important self-directed life-long learning and problem-solving skills. This way you can produced confident self-reflective practitioners that are able to produce make a positive difference to peoples lives. I think that fact that the science is taught in tandem to the practical and clinical skills means that we can learn and see first hand how what we are learning can be applied to dentistry as a whole.
- The fact that we are leaning on phantom heads from semester one developing my skills.
- The study of respiratory, cardiovascular and oral disease and anatomy so we can then then apply that to how to take history’s and start to build an idea of the skills needed to treat provide comfort to patient and treat them safely.
- We are able to work on our practical skills before meeting patients later on so we can build confidence in our ability before using these skill on actual patients.
- This can be then combined with actual patient contact in semester two.
- This sets us up perfectly with full on patient contact in year two and the ability to maybe perform some of the skills learned on actual patients.
