Dental Hygiene Process Of Care & Dental Hygiene Care
Plan: Questions And Answers
Is classifying and staging/grading of a pt a periodontal Diagnosis? Right Ans - No, it is within the limitations a DH can do preliminary staging and grading and the DDS will confirm or disagree What are the steps to this point to cont? Right Ans - Med Hist, BP, Drug infor, Prev survery, OE, Dental charting, probing, SBI, Process of care What is the DH process of care? Right Ans - basis for providing preventative, educational, and therapeutic dental hygiene services that meet acceptable standards of care What is the purpose of DH process of care?- Right Ans - -Provide framework within which the individual needs of the pt are met -to identify causative of influencing factors of a condition that can be reduced, eliminated, or prevented by the DH What are the six phases for identification? Right Ans - Assessment Dental Hygiene diagnosis Planning Implementation Evaluation Documentation Which of the two phases are used within the other phases? Right Ans - Evaluation and Documentation What do you collect in assessment? Right Ans - subjective and objective data What is found in the assessment portion of an exam? Right Ans - Systemic collection of comprehensive data relevant to pts health status What are the subjective points of assesment? Right Ans - What the pt tells you, CC, perception of health, care and value placed on oral habits 1 / 3
What are the objective points of assessment? Right Ans - Clinical and radiographic findings, including probing, loss of attachment, Carious lesions, defective restorations Who does the periodontal diagnosis? Right Ans - the dentist After the periodontal diagnosis is done what can you do? Right Ans - plan for the number and length of appts which will be determined by the pts dental and dental hygiene periodontal diagnosis -look at past and current perio conditions -classification of periodontal disease -case type What do we have in DH in terms of measuring periodontal conditions?Right Ans - grading and staging What is used in DH diagnosis? Right Ans - Critical thinking to interpret assesment data What does DH diagnosis do? Right Ans - provide care plan is designed, data from assessment phase is critically analyzed What does dental hygiene diagnosis help identify? Right Ans - Health behaviors as well as actual behaviors that can be addressed by DH What does a DH diagnosis allow for the Dental hygienist? Right Ans - Challenges DH to assume responsibility for pt care and to move beyond system of clinical practices What else does a DH diagnosis do? Right Ans - justify tx proposed to a pt Where would you find information about a pts sugar intake in a weekly basis?Right Ans - prev survery What does Planning do? Right Ans - Selection of strategies and intervention that meets the needs of the pt in attaining OH -develop strategies to meet needs of pt as identified in DH diagnosis -establish priorities -set goals 2 / 3
determine intervention -identify expected outcomes (prognosis) -present dental hygiene care plan -obtain informed consent If youre scaling, where will you start with a periodontally involved pt?Right Ans - in the worst area or the area that pt asks for first Who provides succesal smoking counseling? Right Ans - dentist and Dental hygienis To whom should you present DH care plan? Right Ans - to dentist and pt What must be signed before tx starts? Right Ans - informed consesnt What is implementation? Right Ans - Activation of care plan; DH services are performed and personal daily oral care instructions are given What should be give to pt at every appt? Right Ans - self care instructions What should be done at every appt? Right Ans - Show pt how to do selfcare methods What is evaluation? Right Ans - when pt is brought back for evaluation 4-6 weeks after tx to chk up What is decided at evaluation? Right Ans - -compare current health status with baseline data -determine change or modification of care plan -determine if pt needs to be re treated, referred, or placed on a cont care schedule -asses progress toward the stated goal -determine recare interval During which step would you determine when your pt needs to recare intervals? Right Ans - evaluation How long does are periodontal pt in 3 month recalls? Right Ans - for life, they will never become Prophy pts
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