La docencia odontológica: un desafío fascinante / Teaching dentistry: a fascinating challenge

ABSTRACT

As the dental profession enters the new millennium, it faces new educational, scientific, and ethical challenges. Therefore, it is timely to ponder about dental teaching's present state and its future. Teachers are docentship's actors. Students form the audience. Between both parties must exist understanding, respect, and frank and permanent communication. Parents have the obligation to educate their children; teachers are responsible for their instruction. These modalities contribute towards a fluid exchange of ideas