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L A Heløe

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PubMed1979

[Disease and dental health. Opinions of institutional dental care in a group of health personnel].

It is reasonable to expect that dental care for institutionalized persons in Norway will be considerably improved in the near future. Opinions and attitudes towards dentistry of the health personel working in the institutions, will, therefore, be of great interest. The present study which was performed by self-administered questionnaires, showed that most of the health personel at Lier sykehus, a mental hospital near Oslo, were willing to and interested in doing active preventive work. There was, however, lack of knowledge about how to perform preventive dentistry. In the future, information and instruction concerning how to prevent oral disease, will be a meaningful task for the dental health team.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1978

[Interviews with Norwegian dentists about continuing education].

A representative, nationwide sample comprising 50 dentists in Norway was surveyed through personal interviews concerning their opinions on and need for postgraduate education. The reports clearly indicated that the professional challenges are changing rapidly as a result of improved treatment habits and dental health among most patients and that continuing dental education should adjust to the new situation. Most interviewers were satisfied with the courses presently offered, but they nevertheless wanted more of them, particularly in oral medicine and surgery, prosthetics, prevention and community dentistry. Scientific papers abounding with statistics and histology were suggested to be reduced in the Norwegian Dental Journal, and should be replaced by practical review papers. Social motives for attending professional meetings were common, the dentists said they learned much of practical value and picked up news in conversations with colleagues. Improved contacts with the dental schools was desired. Concerning undergraduate education, a prevailing view was that too much time was devoted to basic sciences as opposed to clinical- and community dentistry. The attitude towards compulsary continuing education was ambiguous, conceivably a reflection of the two different professional ideals: high standards and autonomy.

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