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An articulation curriculum for dental assisting and dental hygiene radiography/radiology instruction.

This paper reports on an articulation model for dental radiography instruction developed by a task force composed of dental assisting and dental hygiene educators, with the assistance of various committees and groups. The task force participants determined that core courses in didactics, preclinical laboratory study, and clinical radiography should be identical for dental assistants and dental hygiene students. They also determined that an additional course was necessary for dental hygiene students to develop adequate skills in interpreting radiographs to meet the level presently required by national and regional examinations.

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PubMed1989

Pregnancy outcome in women working as dentists, dental assistants or dental technicians.

Pregnancy outcome in women with work in dentistry was studied using various central health registries. A total of 8157 infants born of dentists, dental assistants, or dental technicians in 1976 or 1982-1986 in Sweden were studied with respect to perinatal survival, low birthweight, and malformations and compared with all births. The only deviating finding was that of a significantly low perinatal death rate. Specifically, no increase in a risk for spina bifida was seen and the upper 95% confidence limit for the risk ratio was 2.1. A study was also made of hospitalized spontaneous abortions in women with these occupations in the years 1980-1981. No significant deviations from expected values were found. In a small study of only 78 such pregnancies in 1964-1965, no increase in spontaneous abortion rate was seen. Only one infant was malformed (anencephaly): both its parents worked as dental technicians. None of the mothers of 220 infants with a neural tube defect born in 1965-1967 in Sweden was a dentist. We find no indications that this occupation represents a significant reproduction hazard at the present time in Sweden.

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