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32111 – 牙科保健员和牙科治疗师
牙科保健员提供与口腔健康促进、疾病和口腔损伤预防相关的口腔卫生治疗和服务。他们受雇于各种环境,包括牙医诊所、医院、私人诊所、教育机构、公共卫生机构,或者他们可能是个体经营者。除了牙齿卫生服务外,牙科治疗师还提供有限的修复性牙科治疗。他们受雇于联邦政府和省政府,为农村和偏远社区提供服务。
标题索引
- 社区牙科保健员
- 口腔卫生技师
- 牙科保健员
- 牙科卫生技术员
- 牙科护士
- 牙科治疗师
- 扩大责任牙科卫生员
- 扩大值班牙科护士
- 持牌牙科治疗师
- 正畸保健员
- 牙周卫生员
- 注册牙齿卫生员
- 注册牙科治疗师
- 修复牙科保健员
主要职责
该小组履行以下部分或全部职责:
牙科保健员
- 进行患者筛查和口腔健康评估,包括采集生命体征和记录患者的医疗和健康史
- 取牙印模
- 拍摄和显影 X 光片
- 执行预防性牙科手术,例如牙齿清洁、洗牙、牙龈刺激以及氟化物和密封剂应用
- 提供口腔护理说明,例如口腔卫生程序、维持和改善口腔健康的策略以及营养对口腔健康的影响
- 就患者护理咨询牙医
- 可以在牙医的指导下进行修复和正畸手术
- 可以监督牙科助理的医疗保健职能
- 可以参加以社区或学校为基础的口腔健康计划,例如口腔筛查。
牙科治疗师
- 进行常规牙科检查、口腔癌检查和紧急牙科检查
- 取牙印模
- 拍摄和显影 X 光片
- 执行预防性牙科手术,例如牙齿清洁、牙龈刺激以及氟化物和密封剂应用
- 提供口腔护理说明,例如口腔卫生程序、维持和改善口腔健康的策略以及营养对口腔健康的影响
- 进行常规牙齿修复和简单的拔牙,并提供拔牙后口腔护理说明
- 将患者转介给其他牙科专业人士,以获得超出牙科治疗师范围的护理
- 提供口腔健康促进活动
- 可以监督牙科助理的医疗保健职能。
就业要求
- 牙科保健员通常需要完成两到三年的大学牙科卫生计划,该计划由所在省或居住地区的管理委员会批准。
- 牙科治疗师必须从经批准的牙科机构课程中获得两到三年的大学文凭。
- 牙科保健员需要获得相应省或地区监管机构的许可。
- 萨斯喀彻温省、育空地区、西北地区和努纳武特地区的牙科治疗师需要执照。
附加信息
排除
- 牙科助理和牙科实验室助理(33100)
- 牙医 ( 32110 )
- 牙科技师和技师 ( 32112)
- 牙医 ( 31110 )
English
32111 – Dental hygienists and dental therapists
Dental hygienists provide dental hygiene treatment and services related to oral health promotion and disease and mouth injury prevention. They are employed in a variety of settings including dentists' offices, hospitals, private clinics, educational institutions, public health agencies or they may be self-employed. Dental therapists provide limited restorative dental treatment in addition to dental hygiene services. They are employed by the federal government and the provincial governments to provide services in rural and remote communities.
Index of titles
- Community dental hygienist
- Dental hygiene technician
- Dental hygienist
- Dental hygienist technician
- Dental nurse
- Dental therapist
- Expanded duty dental hygienist
- Expanded duty dental nurse
- Licensed dental therapist
- Orthodontic hygienist
- Periodontal hygienist
- Registered dental hygienist
- Registered dental therapist
- Restorative dental hygienist
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Dental hygienists
- Conduct patient screening and oral health assessments, including taking vital signs and documenting patient medical and health history
- Take dental impressions
- Take and develop X-rays
- Perform preventative dental procedures such as teeth cleaning, scaling, gum stimulation and fluoride and sealant applications
- Provide oral care instructions such as oral hygiene procedures, strategies to maintain and improve oral health and on the impact of nutrition on oral health
- Consult with dentists on patient care
- May perform restorative and orthodontic procedures under the direction of a dentist
- May supervise dental assistants in their health care functions
- May participate in community- or school-based oral health initiatives such as oral screening.
Dental therapists
- Perform routine dental check-ups, oral cancer examinations and emergency dental examinations
- Take dental impressions
- Take and develop X-rays
- Perform preventative dental procedures such as teeth cleaning, gum stimulation and fluoride and sealant applications
- Provide oral care instructions such as oral hygiene procedures, strategies to maintain and improve oral health and on the impact of nutrition on oral health
- Perform routine teeth restorations and uncomplicated extractions and provide post extraction oral care instructions
- Refer patients to other dental professionals for care beyond the scope of the dental therapist
- Provide oral health promotion activities
- May supervise dental assistants in their health care functions.
Employment requirements
- Completion of a two- to three-year college dental hygiene program, approved by the governing board within the province or territory of residence, is usually required for dental hygienists.
- Dental therapists are required to complete a two- to three- year college diploma from an approved dental institution program.
- Licensing by the appropriate provincial or territorial regulatory body is required for dental hygienists.
- Licensure is required for dental therapists in Saskatchewan, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Additional information
Exclusions
- Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants (33100)
- Denturists (32110)
- Dental technologists and technicians (32112)
- Dentists (31110)