Treatment Planning Flashcards
What is diagnosis?
Precise scientificterms used toterms used todescribe variation from normal
Why do you need to create a list of diagnosis or problems?
- Better Organization
- Professional Competence
- Patient Education
- Insurance Reimbursement
What are examples of general health diagnosis?
- Hypertension
- Stable or Unstable Angina
- Controlled Diabetes
What are examples of psychosocial diagnosis?
- Dental Anxiety
- Substance Abuse
- Smoker
- Poor Dental Hygiene
- Limited Income
What are examples of intraoral/extraoral diagnosis?
- Lesions on Soft Tissue
- Prominent Lymph Nodes in Neck
- Salivary Gland Tumor/Stone
What are examples of perio diagnosis?
- Pockets >3 mm
- Mobile Teeth
- Gingival Recession
What are examples of dental diagnosis?
- New Caries
- Recurrent Caries
- Failing Restorations
- Excessive Wear
- Cracked Tooth or Teeth
- Discolored Tooth or Teeth
- Missing Tooth or Teeth
- Malocclusion
What are examples of pulpal and periapical diagnosis?
- Internal Resorption
- Acute Apical Abscess
- Reversible Pulpitis
What does the pre-treatment planning at UMKC consist of?
- Completed Diagnosis
- Completed Consults
- Discussion with patient about their needs and desires.
- Discussion with patient about ability to finance treatment.
- Discussion with faculty at diagnosis what can and cannot be accomplished in the Pre-doctoral Clinic.
- Diagnostic Casts
- Completed Work Sheet
Why should you break treatment into phases?
Treatment is broken into phases as a way to structure the thinking process and to have definitive times when treatment is re-evaluated before going on to the next phase of treatment.
What are the treatment phases at UMKC?
What is phase 1 of treatment?
Systemic Phase
What does phase 1 (systemic phase) involve?
- Systemic disease referral
- Medical Consult
- Premedication Consult
- Altering /Prescribing Medication
What is phase 2 of treatment?
acute phase
What does phase 2 (acute phase) involve?
- Pain
- Swelling
- Traumatic Injury