Professional Responsibilities and Considerations of Dentists.
Introduction
Dental hygienists are best described as the personnel responsible for the general health of the oral cavity. They frequently work in collaboration with bio-medics, social scientists, and behavioural analysts. Their practice encompasses theory and evidence based observations to ensure proper dental health. Working in close association with other health care professionals is what makes their work successful. The professional responsibility of dental hygienist boils down to ensuring general well-being of the oral cavity. Four key responsibility are outlined in this assignment.
Accountability and consideration #1 – Assessment
The first professional duty of the dentist is an evaluation of the general oral health. This is achieved through data collection and interpretation to make sound decisions on states of the dental health. While doing assessments, they have to stick to the universal legislations and codes of ethics that guide the practice setting and profession. In another hand, the dentist has to set an example to the patients thus must maintain their dental hygiene to avoid a scenario of drinking wine and preaching water. Moreover, during the assessment, they must demonstrate the sober professional decision and integrity at their place of work. All decisions made must be client centered and in the best interest of the patient. Also, proper record keeping is so essential in the process as it makes it easy for referencing and during analysis of a problem in a particular community or group of people (Parker 1984).
Responsibility and consideration #2 Planning
The plan would involve bringing individuals and resources together to come up with common goal, vision, objectives and while coming up with best interventions for dental problems. For proper planning, the participation of the client must be factored in and relevant research concerning the goals and aims made. All these are done with the intention of coming up with the best quality improvement mechanism that would make the health care provision better in the hospital (Burt, 1999).
Responsibility and consideration #3 Implementation
The hygiene plan that has been developed is reviewed and accepted while implanting the developed strategies. After doing this, close monitoring is done to the plan and the strategies to ensure everything works as planned. The client is engaged in an open and very honest discussion so as to find the truth from them. The implementation also involves the provision of dental health treatment and training to everyone and anyone within the health care facility. The most important part of this practice, however, is to come up with means of promoting healthy living environment and lifestyles that promote dental well-being.
Responsibility and consideration #4 Evaluation
The evaluation process highly depends on the data collected with regards to the level of client satisfaction about the dental health service provided. The information is collected through various data collection processes, analysed, and the result communicated back to the population and the doctors within the hospital. The results are discussed for any irregularities and various mechanisms of intervention agreed upon during the debate. Every professional stakeholder is involved in this process so as to ensure decisions reached do not only favour the client but are also understood by all the health care professionals. All the points of concern are noted down and subjected to further research and analysis (Darby 1995).
Conclusion
Dental hygiene is of great essence to everyone all over the world due to the importance of the oral cavity. The dentist has four key professional responsibility that guides their mechanism of operation and line of duty. It is important to abide by this responsibility and considerations so as to ensure all that is done within the health care is in the best interest of the clients.
References
Darby, Walsh, M. (1995). Dental Hygiene Theory and Practice. Philadelphia, PA: W.B Saunders.
Parker, E. 1984. The Dental Hygienists: Change Agents for the Future. Dental Hygiene 58: P. 362
Burt, B.A., Eklund, S.A. 1999. Dentistry, Dental Practice, and the Community. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders.