Clarke J R, Walmsley A D, McLaughlin E A, Bradnock G
South Birmingham Health Authority, Selly Oak, Birmingham, UK.
Community Dent Health. 1992 Dec;9(4):393-7.
There is a need for clinical prosthetics training for community dentists. This was apparent when a postgraduate course, which dealt with prosthetic care of elderly people, was organised for dentists working in the community dental service. Over 100 community dentists applied for 40 places. At the outset they were asked to complete a questionnaire which addressed their professional career together with their current prosthetic experience. The majority of participants were employed at dental officer level; 18 per cent were at senior dental officer level. Many of the dentists worked in districts where one or more community dentists provided all the prosthetic treatment within the community dental service. The majority of districts receive their prosthetic patients as a result of referrals from a variety of sources. Only eight dentists saw the majority of their patients at domiciliary visits; many did not see any patients in this manner. The course participants considered that their greatest clinical weakness in prosthetic skills was in the production of copy dentures and in denture design. Many of the dentists who attended the course did not provide a prosthetic service but most of them said that they anticipated that the necessity for this would increase in the future.
社区牙医需要接受临床修复学培训。当为社区牙科服务的牙医组织了一门关于老年人修复护理的研究生课程时，这一点就很明显了。超过100名社区牙医申请40个名额。一开始，他们被要求填写一份问卷，内容涉及他们的职业生涯以及当前的修复经验。大多数参与者是牙科官员级别；18%是高级牙科官员级别。许多牙医工作的地区，有一名或多名社区牙医在社区牙科服务中提供所有的修复治疗。大多数地区接收修复患者是由于来自各种来源的转诊。只有8名牙医大部分患者是上门看诊；许多人没有以这种方式看过任何患者。参加课程的人认为他们在修复技能方面最大的临床弱点在于复制假牙的制作和假牙设计。许多参加课程的牙医不提供修复服务，但他们中的大多数人表示，预计未来对此的需求会增加。
