Dental Education in Great Britain

1. The aim of medical education is to produce doctors whо will promote the health of all people.

2. The patient expects a doctor to be trained as a careful observer and an effective clinician.

3. Dental education in Great Britain lasts for 5 years.

4. The dental course has the following departments:

- conservative treatment

- endodontic department

- periodontal department

- orthodontics

5. The organization of the teaching process varies in different schools. In some of them the students work for some months in one clinic, then continue in another. In other schools the students work in several clinics.

6. After graduation from the university young specialists start to work as assistants of dental surgeons in general practice.

At the Dentist’s

1. When you have a bad toothache you go to the stomatological polyclinic.

2. First you go to the registry and the nurse finds your card.

3. After that you go to the examination room.

4. The doctor on duty examines your teeth and directs you to the proper dentist: therapeutist or surgeon.

5. Having a cavity you go to the dental therapeutist.

6. When you must have your tooth extracted you go to the dental surgeon.

7. The surgeon also treats traumatic diseases of the teeth and jaws.

8. The doctor examines your teeth with a probe and a dental mirror, and finds the cavity.

9. Then he cleanses the cavity by ultrasound and puts a tem­porary fillings, he puts a permanent filling in 4-5 days.

The Faculty of Stomatology

1. The faculty of stomatology was founded in 1958.

2. It traines specialists in various fields of stomatology: dental therapy, surgery, orthodontics, physiotherapy, periodontics and prosthodontics.

3. The course of studies lasts for five years.

4. In the second year the future dentists study therapeutic stomatology and prevention of dental diseases.

5. At the therapeutic stomatology department students study methods of treatment of different dental diseases.

6. The work of the dentist consists of the examination of teeth and oral cavity, of making diagnosis, of prevention and treatment of dental and oral diseases.

7. The dentist must not only have deep knowledge in his field but also be a good psychologist.

8. Usually patients have fear of pain when they come to the dentist.

9. In this case the doctor must calm the patient, reduce his stress.

Dental Case History

1. Patient's case history is filled in by a doctor on the patient's first visit to the polyclinic.

2. Case history can help doctors to understand the patient's health problems, to make a correct diagnosis and administer a proper treatment.

3. It is important for a dentist to know if the patient has sensitivity to antibiotics and problems with bleeding after tooth extraction.

4. It's also necessary to obtain some information about patient's dental diseases, stomatological operations and about the patient's traumas.

5. These findings compose the past history of stomatological patient.

6. The information on the dental examination, the condition of the patient's oral cavity, the number of filled, decayed and missing teeth, the course of the disease, the administered stomatological procedures – all these findings are included in the dental history.