ABSTRACT
The profession of dentistry developed essentially based on the rapid progress of research in general. With the law of dentistry in 1952, the dentist became an independent profession in Germany. The EU directive 2005/36 for recognition of professional qualifications now regulates the requirements for practicing as a dentist in the European Union. Today, dentistry is a scientifically based medical discipline which has increased its preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic possibilities especially over the last 3 decades. The implementation is carried out in dental practice under the framework and basic conditions of present health care policy and conditions. A new order regulating licenses to practice dentistry is under development in which the first 2 years will be nearly identical with the studies of medicine and the medical licensure act. The closer orientation toward medicine is reasonable as more multimorbid patients will have a need for dental treatment in daily practice and co-operation with physicians will be more frequent in the future. New occupational profiles in dentistry are proposed above the level of a graduated dentist as well as below but also in completely new noncurative areas.
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Licensure, Dental/legislation & jurisprudence , National Health Programs/legislation & jurisprudence , Contract Services/trends , Delivery of Health Care/trends , Dental Research/trends , European Union , Forecasting , Germany , Humans , Professional Autonomy , Quality Assurance, Health Care/trends , Specialties, Dental/legislation & jurisprudenceABSTRACT
The brainstem auditory evoked potentials were recorded in 54 children within the first 48 hours after a head trauma of different degree. In comparison with an age--appropriate standard group there are changed BAEP in 51% of the examined children after head trauma. The abnormalities mainly consist in changes of the wave--morphology, the latencies of the waves 1, 3 and 5 were significantly prolonged. The interpeak--intervals only unessentially differ from the standard group. The detected BAEP--changes are of different kind and incidence. A typical change of the potential for the infantile head trauma cannot be found. The regression of the traumatically conditioned BAEP--changes begins during the first days after trauma and it is finished within 6 months in half of the children. In the particular case changes can be detected after two years yet.
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Brain Damage, Chronic/diagnosis , Brain Injuries/diagnosis , Brain Stem/physiopathology , Electroencephalography , Evoked Potentials, Auditory/physiology , Adolescent , Brain Damage, Chronic/physiopathology , Brain Injuries/physiopathology , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , PrognosisABSTRACT
"Trigger finger" in childhood has to be delimited from the corresponding disease in adults. The therapy is done by subcutaneous tendovaginal discission as the most optimal and for the child the least of all straining method of treatment. Surgical intervention is recommended to be done at the age of two years.
