Support during Assessment in Dental Care Setting

Learn about the importance of support during assessment in a dental care setting and how it helps in effective management of dental care activities. Explore dental records, charts, radiographs, photographs, and other tools used in dental assessment. Understand the impact of medical conditions on dental treatment and the importance of completing contemporaneous records. Discover methods to monitor physical characteristics, ways to alert clinicians about potential medical emergencies, and how to support patients during oral assessment. Gain insights into the internal practice referral system and ways to communicate with patients in pain or distress. Learn about surgery procedures for further treatment.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1. Identify the dental records and give reason of their usage.......................................................1
4) Forensic charting Assessment.................................................................................................3
5) 3 reason for selecting the charts..............................................................................................3
6) 3 medical conditions affecting dental treatment......................................................................3
7) importance of completing contemporaneous records and ther documents after oral
assessment....................................................................................................................................4
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................4
1) Methods to monitor the physical characteristics.....................................................................4
2) How to alert a clinician about a potential medical emergency................................................4
3) Way to support patient during oral assessment.......................................................................4
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................4
1) Internal practice referral system..............................................................................................4
2) 3 ways to communicate a patient with pain or distress...........................................................5
3) How to communicate reason of further assessment................................................................5
4) Surgery procedure for further treatment..................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
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REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Providing the proper management will help in effective carrying out of services that will
help in proper management of operations in dental care setting. Various assessment and
graphical representations are been presented that will help in proper management of dental care
activities in much effective way.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
1. Identify the dental records and give reason of their usage
Dental Records and
Chart
Insert Example Identify the reason to use them
Dental chart It gives us the clear idea about the
status of teeth within buccal cavity.
RadioGraphs We use the Bitewing x-ray as the
major tool to check out the inter
proximal surfaces of teeth of caries
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Photographs The dental photo graphs are been
taken in consideration before and
after the treatment, to identify
extent of treatment.
Periodontal chart It helps to find the positioning and
effectiveness of the various types
of teeth in mouth.
Study models It gives the 3D idea about the
dentures and teeth within a mouth.
It can be refereed as the guide for
dental structures and studies.
Personal Details Name and dental Ailment related
to a person.
This will help in the proper
assessment of the business
operations and activities.
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Medical History -
Agreed
It will help the dental care
providers to get the proper idea
about a patients past medical
history related to an ailment.
Orthodontic
measurements
It gives the details about the proper
management of the teeth and the
buccal cavity that will improve the
idea about dentures of patients.
4) Forensic charting Assessment
5) 3 reason for selecting the charts
The major reason behind selecting charts records and diagrams before dental assessment
are:
 It makes the dental treatment easy.
 It helps the dental carer to identify the disease or ailment.
 It helps the practitioners to take proper precaution.
6) 3 medical conditions affecting dental treatment
3 dental condition that can affect an individual condition while treatment are:
 High Blood pressure
 Diabetes
 Tooth decay
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7) importance of completing contemporaneous records and ther documents after oral assessment
It is important to fill out all the assessment details and documents for the recording of the
oral assessment as it will help the firm or carer to get the source for future reference and improve
the quality of services and thus will help in proper management of the oral assessment and
treatment process (Elad and et.al., 2015).
Task 3
1) Methods to monitor the physical characteristics
Physical characteristics of an individual can be monitored by various ways such as:
 Heart beat / Minute
 Breathing rate
 Pulse rate
2) How to alert a clinician about a potential medical emergency
The clinician can be informed about a medical emergency by the means of telephonic
call. Text message or referring the medical reports of the patients (Treloar and et.al., 2015). This
will help him top make suitable preparation to address the emergency.
3) Way to support patient during oral assessment
A patient can be carried out with proper assessment and management of the treatment
that is been carried out within an organisation which will help in improving his health condition
that will improve the quality of services that are been performed within the organisation in much
suitable way (Ritter, 2017.).
Task 4
1) Internal practice referral system
It is a practice that will help in the proper management of medical emergency by a doctor
or dental practitioner. This will help in effectively handling a serious condition or medical
attention to a patient internally a department or clinic.
The 3 forms and communication taken for the referral of patients are:
 patient referral form
 Medical history details
 Details of treatment undergoing
4 reason when patients are refereed to other team members:
 unavailability of main dental practitioner
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 Need of expertise to handle the medical case
 requirements of better treatment
 Preference by patients.
2) 3 ways to communicate a patient with pain or distress
 Encouraging the patient to bear the pain.
 Giving local anaesthesia
 Providing a proper painkiller and talk to the patient to pacify him.
3) How to communicate reason of further assessment
The need of further assessment will help in proper management of treatment operations
will help in reducing the severity of ailment. This can be communicated either face to face or by
producing a patient referral document. It is important for having a proper treatment of dental
disease.
4) Surgery procedure for further treatment
For the further treatment, Flap surgery or pocket reduction surgery measure can be taken
in consideration by the dental practitioner to treat a severe dental ailment.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of evaluation, this can be said that the proper support and help is required to
carry out the effective dental assessment to a greater extent.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Elad, S. and et.al., 2015. Basic oral care for hematology–oncology patients and hematopoietic
stem cell transplantation recipients: a position paper from the joint task force of the
Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer/International Society of Oral
Oncology (MASCC/ISOO) and the European Society for Blood and Marrow
Transplantation (EBMT). Supportive Care in Cancer. 23(1). pp.223-236.
Ritter, A.V., 2017. Sturdevant's Art & Science of Operative Dentistry-E-Book. Elsevier Health
Sciences.
Treloar, C. and et.al., 2015. Evaluation of two community-controlled peer support services for
assessment and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in opioid substitution treatment
clinics: The ETHOS study, Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy. 26(10).
pp.992-998.
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