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Dec 31, 2015
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Dental therapist Dental hygienist Dental nurse Oral health therapist Role Licensure
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Dental nurse, dental therapist, dental hygienist and oral health therapist play an important role in the provision of oral health promotion and prevention. The educational programme, role and scope of practice of these four groups of allied oral health professionals are different in each country, even they called the same. At the beginning, many countries adopted a new auxiliary training programme from the same originate such as the New Zealand dental nurse model. However, after the adoption each country has invariably developed as a response to their particular context. Dental hygienist usually provides oral health prevention and promotion in every age group both public and private sectors. While dental therapist has played a much greater role in treatment procedure focusing on children in school dental service. Currently, there is an integrate dental therapist and dental hygienist programme called oral health therapist in order to increase skill and scope of practice. The dental nurse, dental therapist, dental hygienist and oral health therapist are supervised by dental council, Ministry of Health and dental health board. These allied oral health professionals in country that permit to practice in private sector, usually require for a licensure and having specific requirement for licensure renewal.
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อัครสุต ว. Review Article. Th Dent PH J [Internet]. 2015 Dec. 31 [cited 2024 Jul. 18];20(3):78-8. Available from: https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ThDPHJo/article/view/151306
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22. British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy. Dental hygienists and dental therapists (1 May 2015) Available from: http://www.bsdht.org.uk/res/Dental%20Hygienists%20and%20Dental%20Therapists.pdf
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