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I've been going to a local clinic where a student resident has been working on my teeth (filling cavities) and I have a question. Should the residents be required to have a dental assistant present during these procedures? Because on one of my appointments the resident tells the assistant 'I've got this' and the assistant leaves the room while I get multiple cavities filled over a 45-60 min visit and the next visit with more cavities being done the assistant is also gone most of the time. This makes me feel uncomfortable being the resident is still a student and perhaps having a dental assistant present (having another set of eyes there) would be better in case the resident overlooks something. What do you think?
If the students are filling cavities, the students should be in dental school. A dental assistant doesn't drill teeth. There should be a teacher (fully qualified dentist) on the premises to oversee the students.
Dental assistants are there to help the dentist with providing the tools at the appropriate time and keeping records, but do not offer advice regarding how to drill teeth.
Ok what I meant is dental resident at a hospital dental clinic. With 'resident' meaning General Practice Residency (GPR) postgraduate training program for dentists (after completing dental school).
The issue I'm asking about is whether these practicing 'residents' should have dental assistants present while filling cavities etc?
I'm curious why you call them students and say they are practicing? I have been a dentist for almost 20 years and I am still "practicing". I never had an assistant in dental school and much of my residency.
What I mean is most of the time when I've gone to a regular dentist office or to dental clinics inside a hospital that have a dental residency program such as this one: https://www.rwjbh.org/for-healthcare...tal-residency/
the dentist usually has an assistant who suctions your mouth, hands instruments to the dentist etc during procedures such as root canals + getting cavities filled (in my experience). Since these dentists 'graduate' from the residency program and all the dental residents I've had in the past are quite young (in their 20's) I'm going under the assumption they are still in training. Plus many times during my visits they would have to get the advice of their ?advisor? on treatment plans and the like. Which I've never had a dentist in a private practice have to talk to an advisor to do any work. So they are in training, correct? And my concern is with my new dental resident telling the assistant he needs no help and chases her out of the room. That does make me a uncomfortable so I posted here asking what others think.
What I mean is most of the time when I've gone to a regular dentist office or to dental clinics inside a hospital that have a dental residency program such as this one: https://www.rwjbh.org/for-healthcare...tal-residency/
the dentist usually has an assistant who suctions your mouth, hands instruments to the dentist etc during procedures such as root canals + getting cavities filled (in my experience). Since these dentists 'graduate' from the residency program and all the dental residents I've had in the past are quite young (in their 20's) I'm going under the assumption they are still in training. Plus many times during my visits they would have to get the advice of their ?advisor? on treatment plans and the like. Which I've never had a dentist in a private practice have to talk to an advisor to do any work. So they are in training, correct? And my concern is with my new dental resident telling the assistant he needs no help and chases her out of the room. That does make me a uncomfortable so I posted here asking what others think.
I started going to Penn University before COVID shut everything down. Since it's Philly, I won't chance going there yet. I'm not having fillings done, my teeth need pulled and dentures. I've been seeing the dental school clinic from where I sit in the prosthodontics chair. There are always 2 students when someone is getting dental work. On does the work, the other assists with the spit vac. I don't know what the normal is where you go. You may have to ask and if you prefer having the 2nd student there, say something when you sit down. That's a long time for one person to drill and remember to pay attention to the suction you need done.
I'm surprised that the actual dental teacher has not been to see what my student had done. I don't recall him even looking at the dentures he made me that I have not gotten yet even though the student was almost ready to graduate when I started seeing him. At Penn, the students learn how to make the full dentures, seems like they can go into all sorts of fields when they learn there. From what I hear, it will be a million dollar student loan. I don't know how anyone can qualify for that much student loans.
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