PubMed · 6582882
The source did not provide an abstract. Follow the original record for more information.
Explore connections, maps & timelines
K E Nicholas. 1984-01-07. Orthodontic teaching.. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4805265
Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.
KEEP EXPLORING
Education for dental students has long been a subject for debate but as this article suggests, the arguments often just take us round in a perpetual circle. If any valuable progress is to occur, the profession needs to rethink its long-established opinions on this issue and consider where change is actually realised.
A postal questionnaire was used to ascertain policies and practices of European dental schools in relation to smoking and the teaching of the relationship of smoking to the aetiology and primary prevention or oral cancer. A majority of responding schools taught the role of smoking in the aetiology of oral cancer. A majority expected students to take smoking histories from patients. Half of schools taught anti-smoking advice to students and half expected students to impart such advice to patients. A majority banned smoking in clinical and non-clinical teaching facilities and associated public access areas. There is scope for considerable improvement in curricula in relation to anti-smoking counselling and in the practices of schools in expecting students to act as tobacco counsellors.