Infection control is a central concept to every practice of health care providers. Its main objective is to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases from both patients and health personnel (Martin et al., 2010). In dental clinic, infection control is a continuous concern for its professionals. They have to contact patients routinely and be exposed to their blood, saliva, dental plaque and pus that may contain infectious pathogens. It is important for the dental professionals to treat these
Why is Infection Control Important? Infection control is very important in the health care profession. It’s very important that we as a dental assistant make sure we follow the guidelines to protect the patient, the community and ourselves. Health care professionals, who do not practice proper infection control, can expose multiple bacteria and diseases to others. The main objective is to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases from both patients and health personnel. Today, infection control
1 Practices of infection control in dental clinics in the private, public and academic sectors in Sri Lanka Introduction: A dental operatory can be a risk for disease transmission if proper precautions are not adhered to. Infections may be transmitted in the dental operatory through different routes. It can be either by way of direct contact with blood, oral fluids, or other secretions or via indirect contact with contaminated instruments, equipment or environmental surfaces and also through
WAIARIKI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WORK INTEGRATED PROJECT-1 Challenge identification & literature research Id number: 27009892 6/8/2014 [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] Table of contents: 1. INTRODUCTION....................................................
Dental public health programs in the United States operate on federal, state, or local levels. The roles and responsibilities of these programs are directly related to the level of which the program operates. Both similarities and differences can be seen when comparing dental public health programs with regard to organization, financing and delivery of care. Despite differences in the levels in which different dental public health programs operate, all of the programs share a common, generalized
1) Please discuss how dental health service are provided to the people of Hong Kong and critically appraise the pros and cons of dental care in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, the dental service is provided to the citizens in two ways: The Governmental service and the Non-governmental service. Overall, the private practitioners account for the majority of dental service. There are four components of the Governmental service: First, it is the Oral-Health-Education-Unit, which promotes awareness of oral
cataloging over $600K worth financial transactions for the Army Dental Lab within a period of 2.5 years, performing tasks such as spreadsheet
and hope to get a job position as a Dental Hygenist. By going on this path I know there would be a lot of challenges I would have to overcome and stress levels would rise from the work loads of work. I need to work very hard to accomplish this goal by doing the courses the colleges offer and to set high marks on them. I have to review my notes everyday and be prepared for next lessons. In order to be in the college I need to get the courses that is related to dental hygiene in high school and other
Being a dental hygienist was not the career I grew up believing I would pursue. At a young age, up to my Junior year in high school, I had my goals set on being a veterinarian. Going into high school I widened that plan into any job dealing with animal science. However, taking classes like zoology, botany, equine science, veterinary technology and advanced animal science, made me realize that I would not have as much direct contact or personal connections with the animals as I had hoped. However
United States to be worse than that of the general population. Common health problems in the homeless population include: mental health problems, substance abuse problems, bronchitis and pneumonia, problems caused by being outdoors, wound and skin infections, along with the complications that follow each of the listed problems (Medicine Plus, 2016). Along with the list of problems previously stated, many homeless women are victims of domestic or sexual abuse. Children often have high rates of emotional