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Current availability of patients in dental hygiene programs
Author(s) -
Cross GN,
Entwistle BA,
Meskin LH
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1985.49.8.tb01907.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , dental hygiene , periodontology , medicine , curriculum , hygiene , scope (computer science) , dentistry , family medicine , medical education , psychology , pedagogy , government (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , computer science , programming language
Dental hygiene programs were surveyed to determine current availability of patients to meet the training needs of dental hygiene students. Eighty‐six percent of the programs responded. Widespread inadequate to marginal patient availability was reported in periodontics and radiology. Two major reasons cited for patient shortages were, first, that completion of treatment requires too much time, and, second, that people are unaware of the scope of services performed by students. Patient shortages do not appear to be contributing to changes in the curriculum or fiscal problems in dental hygiene programs.