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YEAR OF UNITY, PEACE AND THE
DEVELOPMENT
NAME: EYRIS EVELIN TORRES CORONEL
COURSE: ORAL HEALTH ASSISTANCE
TEACHER: OLENKA JIMENA VELA REATEGUI
TOPIC: PROFESSIONAL PROFILE OF THE TECHNICIAN IN
NURSING IN DENTAL PRACTICE
CYCLE: VI
SHIFT: NIGHT
TARAPOTO-PERU-2023
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE OF THE NURSING TECHNICIAN IN THE
DENTAL PRACTICE
INTRODUCTION
A highly qualified dental technician is a vital member of the team.
dental health.
Being a Dental Technician is a career that requires dedication,
personal responsibility, integrity, and commitment to continuous learning.
Being a Dental Assistant is much more than acquiring knowledge and the
skills, is to become a Professional Technician.
Professionalism is an attitude that is evident in everything that is said and done,
both inside and outside the dental office.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A DENTAL TECHNICIAN
➢ Good personal hygiene.
➢ Healthy.
➢ Clean and appropriate clothing both clinically and personally.
daily.
➢ Clean shoes.
➢ Hair taken and out of the face.
➢ Minimum amount of jewelry.
➢ Maintain good oral hygiene.
➢ Clean and short nails.
PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE OF THE DENTAL TECHNICIAN
✓ Responsibility and Initiative
✓ Always arrive on time and do not leave early.
✓ Willingness to help other team members.
✓ Be willing to learn.
✓ Find things to do.
✓ Never discuss personal problems with patients or other members.
of the team.
Confidentiality
❖ Everything said inside the dental box must be kept confidential.
effective confidential.
❖ Breaking confidentiality can result in lawsuits for everyone.
involved in the area.
❖ Never reveal information about patients.
❖ Never discuss patients' problems outside the dental box.
DAILY ROUTINE OF THE DENTAL TECHNICIAN
The ability to recognize a daily routine in work performance allows us to
generate a habit of actions and a systematization in all processes that
required before, during and after dental care.
It is of utmost importance in the first work experiences.
ROUTINE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY
♦ Arrive a few minutes before the start of the workday.
♦ Be there before the arrival of the first patient of the day.
♦ Turn on the vacuum and compressor units.
♦ Prepare the procedure room for patient care.
♦ Review the appointment schedule.
♦ Prepare the instruments and materials for the first patient.
Complete the cleaning protocols and exposure control of the room.
deprocedures.
♦ Turn off all the equipment.
♦ Make sure that the procedure room has the necessary supplies.
for the next day.
♦ Note the appointments for the following day.
WORK IN THE STERILIZATION CENTER
✓ Wash, sterilize, and store the instruments.
✓ Keep extra material stored for supply. It should always be
to be clean and organized.
✓ Divide between contaminated area and clean area.
FUNCTIONS OF THE ORAL HEALTH TEAM IN DIFFERENT
LEVELS OF CARE
Due to the technological and organizational complexity of the resources it possesses
a community or region.
Healthcare is divided to address health needs of the
population.
Primary Level.
Secondary Level.
Tertiary level.
PRIMARY LEVEL OF ATTENTION
It is the first level of contact for the population with medical services and
health for a community. The set of services and resources at this level
corresponds to the basic unit of action of the health system.
SECONDARY LEVEL OF ATTENTION
It serves to complete the comprehensive care provided by the primary level,
adding a higher level of specialization both at the level of human resources
as technological. Corresponds to the specialty clinics that have
with various medical and surgical specialties, as well as exams
complementary, which complement the first level.
TERTIARY LEVEL OF CARE
It is the level of greatest specialization and complexity in terms of resources.
humans and technological. It is carried out exclusively in high hospitals
complexity.
REGULATIONS FOR THE EXERCISE OF AUXILIARY PROFESSIONS
FROM MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY N° 1704,
FROM 1993
1. Assistants These assistants should perform support tasks
diagnostic and therapeutic and other auxiliary activities that are assigned to them
assign at the different levels of care, under the supervision, control and
direct dependence on the corresponding professionals.
Dental paramedic assistant is the personnel qualified to
to serve as an assistant to dental professionals in the
tasks proper to their work, carried out under their control and supervision
directly, the specific activities that they assign to them.
2. Receive, guide, and prepare the patient emotionally for care.
Dental. Prepare and isolate the surgical field. After the
attention, strengthen the instructions given by the dentist to the patient.
3. At the dentist's indication
To carry out activities for detecting bacterial plaque.
Teaching oral hygiene techniques.
Coronary polishing and supragingival scaling.
Topical fluoride application, sealant application.
4.Be part of the dental health team, collaborating in the
simplified dental care. Support the dentist in techniques of
first aid, according to the emergency that occurs.
5. Be in charge of the preparation and maintenance of the clinic and/or operating room
surgical, armory, and preparing the materials to be used during the
attention.
