Implementation of the ART approach in South Africa: an activity report.
The Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) approach has been adopted in public dental services in South Africa as an appropriate and economical means to provide basic restorative care in communities where it was not possible before. The approach also offers a less-traumatic treatment concept for fearful patients and children in the private dental practice. In 2000, the Division of Community Dentistry, University of the Witwatersrand, implemented a training, research and service programme in the ART approach. The aim of these activities was the promotion of ART at various levels within the oral health care system in the Republic of South Africa. The objectives of the programme were to initiate and provide training of oral health workers in ART, to evaluate the outcome of training and service programmes and to disseminate results. This paper describes the Division's ART activities in 2000, regarding public, private and refugee health services.
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Division of Community Dentistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 15, Braamfontein 2017, South Africa. neem@altavista.net
Rudolph
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003149:Community Dentistry / Q000193:education; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000517:prevention & control; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000628:therapy*; D018772:Dental Marginal Adaptation; D003764:Dental Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000379:methods*; D004497:Education, Dental; D006801:Humans; D011331:Private Practice; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011636:Public Health Dentistry; D012036:Refugees; D012424:Rural Population; D013019:South Africa; D013383:Suburban Population; D014081:Tooth Extraction
D003764:Dental Materials