Gambhir Ramandeep Singh
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Gian Sagar Dental College and Hospital, Rajpura, Punjab, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2015 Jan-Mar;4(1):13-8. doi: 10.4103/2249-4863.152239.
Dentistry is neither an allied health profession nor a paramedical profession. It is the only anatomically focused health care profession that is university-based and for which primary care responsibility is maintained by the profession. Dentists must have a reliable knowledge of basic clinical medicine for safely and effectively treating individuals with chronic and other diseases, which make them biologically and pharmacologically compromised. With changes in the life expectancy of people and lifestyles, as well as rapid advancement in biomedical sciences, dentists should have similar knowledge like a physician in any other fields of medicine. There are number of primary care activities that can be conducted in the dental office like screening of diabetics, managing hypertension etc., The present review was conducted after doing extensive literature search of peer-reviewed journals. The review throws a spotlight on these activities and also suggests some the measures that can be adopted to modify dental education to turn dentists to oral physicians.
牙科既不是辅助医疗专业，也不是准医疗专业。它是唯一以解剖学为重点、以大学为基础且由该专业承担主要护理责任的医疗保健专业。牙医必须具备可靠的基础临床医学知识，以便安全有效地治疗患有慢性疾病和其他疾病的患者，这些疾病会使患者在生物学和药理学方面受到损害。随着人们预期寿命和生活方式的变化，以及生物医学科学的迅速发展，牙医应具备与其他医学领域的医生类似的知识。在牙科诊所可以开展许多初级护理活动，如糖尿病筛查、高血压管理等。本综述是在对同行评审期刊进行广泛文献检索后进行的。该综述聚焦于这些活动，并提出了一些可以采取的措施，以调整牙科教育，使牙医转变为口腔医生。
