Dental Health Care Team

What are four members of the dental health care team ?

• Dentist

• Dental Assistant

• Dental Hygienist

• Dental Laboratory Technician

The ADA recognizes how many dental specialties?

• 9

• None

• 10

• 2

A Dentist :

• Must Graduate from a Dental University approved by the ADA

• Must pass the NBDE after graduation

• 4 years of undergrad, bachelor's degree

  4 years of dental school

• Trained in the US

Dental Specialist:

• Must Be a Dentist first

• Involves the policies at state, county, and national levels to prevent disease.

• Known for doing root canals

• Straightens teeth.

Dental specialist

• Must be a dentist first.

• It takes about 2 to 6 years to complete any extra education needed to be specialist.

• Takes addition schooling for a specialty they would like to work in.

• All of the above

Dental Public Health:

• Involves the policies at state, county, and national levels to prevent disease.

• Head start programs, community fluoridation issues etc.

• Involved with the children's oral oral health care from birth to adolescence.

• Involved with treatment, diagnosis, prevention of the malocclusions and uneven structures in the teeth.

Endodontics:

• Involved with children's oral health care from birth to adolescence.

• Uses new and sophisticated imaging techniques to locate tumors and infectious disease of the jaw, head, and neck.

• Involves the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in the pulps or around those areas. known for doing root canals.

Oral Maxillofacial Radiology (x-ray) :

• The first dental specialties in 36 years by being recognized by being the ADA.

• Involved in replacing missing teeth with artificial constructs such as crowns, bridges, and dentures or implants.

• Involved with the treatment of oral disease in the oral tissues around the teeth.

• Is involved with the examinations of diseases in the oral cavity.

♡ The first Dental specialties in 36 years by being recognized by the ADA

♡ Uses new and sophisticated imaging techniques to locate tumors and infectious disease of the jaw, head, and neck.

• Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (X-ray)

• Oral Pathology

• Orthodontics

• All of the above

♡ Involves the treatment, diagnosis, prevention of oral disease in the maxillofacial regions.

• Orthodontics

• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

• Prosthodontics

• Neither