Making a comprehensive diagnosis in a comprehensive care curriculum.
Comprehensive care models in dental education encourage students to deliver patient-centered care. But to deliver effective comprehensive care, a clinician must first make a comprehensive diagnosis. Students of general dentistry are taught to make one or more diagnoses as defined by the dental specialties, and to direct patient care accordingly. Without a comprehensive diagnosis, patients may receive fragmented, poorly prioritized care that is inappropriate to their overall oral health. This paper presents a simple diagnostic classification that can be used to make a comprehensive diagnosis with which to guide the student of general dentistry in planning comprehensive care.
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Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 94143-0758, USA. gordond@itsa.ucsf.edu
D003190:Comprehensive Dental Care / Q000145:classification; D003479:Curriculum; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D003945:Diagnosis, Oral / Q000145:classification / Q000193:education*; D004497:Education, Dental; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D014076:Tooth Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis