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Minimum intervention oral care delivery for children: developing the oral healthcare team Sarah Young Bhupinder Dawett Amanda Gallie Avijit Banerjee Chris Deery Dental Update 2024 49:5, 707-709.
Professor of Cariology & Operative Dentistry, Hon Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's Hospital, KCL, King's Health Partners, London, UK
This article discusses the potential use of the oral healthcare team in the delivery of minimum intervention oral care (MIOC) for caries management in children. It summarizes opportunities and difficulties, both evidenced and anticipated, in the context of general dental practice in the UK. Given the push to provide safe and effective care using wider members of the oral healthcare team, this article offers insight into potential barriers and facilitators that may present in general dental practice.
CPD/Clinical Relevance: There is a belief that the wider team within general dental practice will have an increasingly important role to play in the provision of oral and dental care.
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Teamworking enables organizations, large or small, to take advantage of the variety of skills, knowledge, experience available and the potential to make the most efficient use of available resources. There has been a shift in medicine from the solitary general practitioner working alone, to a team-based approach, with specialists, doctors with special interests, practice nurses with extended duties, all working collaboratively. Several papers have espoused the potential benefits of such an integrated team-based approach to the delivery of oral and dental care where clinical interventions are provided, not just solely by the dentist, but by other dental care professionals (DCPs). In general dental practice, workforce skill-mix has been encouraged for several years with many advocating greater use of DCPs.1,2,3 Using members of an oral healthcare team to work collaboratively is not without its challenges, however.4 Effective evidence-based healthcare can be expressed as the ‘right care being delivered by the right people to the right people in the right place at the right time’.5 This article focuses primarily on primary care dental practice in the United Kingdom.
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