Open AccessRestoring the voids of voices by signs and gestures, in dentistry: A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Suyog N. Jain,
Vijay Duggi,
Avinash Alagumalai,
Alok Dubey,
Sambodhi Fouzdar,
Mylavarapu Krishna Sagar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry/journal of indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3905
pISSN - 0970-4388
DOI - 10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_88_16
Subject(s) - gesture , sign language , hearing impaired , nonverbal communication , test (biology) , dentistry , medicine , interpreter , psychology , audiology , family medicine , communication , linguistics , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , biology , programming language
To help dentists to communicate with the hearing impaired patients, reach an accurate diagnosis and explain the treatment plan by learning some signs and gestures used in the nonverbal communication (NVC) and by devising some new signs and gestures related to dentistry which shall be easy to learn and understand both by the hearing impaired patients and the dentists.