ABSTRACT
Dental and medical practice often requires an interdisciplinary approach integrating the knowledge, skills and experience of all the disciplines of dentistry, medicine and its associated fields into comprehensive treatment to maximize results. Rapid and comprehensive scientific and technological advances have made it difficult for dental and medical practitioners to keep up to date in their fields; thus, to decrease practitioner frustration and increase patient benefits, an interdisciplinary approach has become essential. This report illustrates how therapy was coordinated for a young medically compromised patient with dental phobia and significant dental problems. The latest advances in dental techniques and materials, medical technology and pharmacology are highlighted. The communication and cooperation of team members with each other and with the patient and guardians is illustrated. The astute observation by a medical practitioner in an unrelated discipline led to the improvement in the quality of life for a patient.
Subject(s)
Comprehensive Dental Care , Mouth Rehabilitation , Patient Care Team , Adolescent , Alcoholism/complications , Anesthesia, Dental , Child Behavior Disorders/complications , Crowns , Dental Anxiety/prevention & control , Dental Care for Chronically Ill , Dental Caries/therapy , Dentist-Patient Relations , Gingivitis/therapy , Heart Defects, Congenital/complications , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , Male , Malocclusion, Angle Class II/therapy , Oral Hygiene , Professional-Family Relations , Substance-Related Disorders/complications , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
The nature and the diagnosis and prognosis of the two forms of viral hepatitis is discussed. The possibility of transmission of these diseases during dental treatment to other patients or to dentists or their staff is considered and measures to reduce this risk are suggested.
