Hospital dental departments and the provision of dental services.
Some hospitals have dental departments where in-patients are treated, and where a service is provided for dental patients whose medical conditions make private-practice dental treatment risky. The author of this article provides a partial list of the more common or severe medical conditions for which hospital dental treatment is advisable. Ways in which collaboration between the family physician and the dentist can benefit these patients are discussed.
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