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The overall
objective of the Satellite Dental Clinic program is to bridge the gap
between the discipline based educational environment and the
independent environment of a dental practice. The program is designed
to allow the students to make more independent judgements concerning
comprehensive care in conjunction with both Department policy and the
particular needs of the patient, and be more individually responsible
for such actions. The students will have the opportunity to provide
services to segments of the population (in High Level, La Crete and/or
McLennan) who do not routinely receive dental care and consequently
present with higher levels of oral disease. In addition, more complex
treatment cases than previously seen in the school will be encountered.
Not only will the student see a greater severity of dental disease,
he/she will be able to treat a larger number of patients in a day.
Specifically the objectives are:
- to have the dental
and dental hygiene student provide evidence-based comprehensive dental
care for patients in underserviced areas,
- to have the student
become more confident in his/her own ability as a clinician by having
greater responsibility for his/her own actions,
- to have the
students recognize the health needs of patients in underserviced
communities and understand the reasons for these needs,
- to facilitate
student experience with professional and interpersonal relationships
between dentists, allied dental professionals and patients,
- to introduce and
encourage dental and dental hygiene graduates to evaluate the
possibility of establishing practices in a rural community.
Services offered to patients at the Satellite Dental Clinics are:
- Diagnosis and Treatment plan.
- Emergency examination and treatment.
- Oral pathology examination and biopsy.
- Orthodontic examination for ortho referrals.
- Endodontic examination for endo referrals.
- Radiographs - intraoral, pantographic and cephalometric.
- Consult/screen patients re: difficult orth/endo/prosth cases.
- Preventive - mouth guards, disking of teeth.
- Restorative - caries control, amalgam & composite restoration, restoration with retention pins and posts.
- Endodontics - anterior and bicuspid.
Services offered to patients at the Satellite Dental Clinics are:
- Pedodontics - restorations, pulpotomy, pulpectomy, stainless steel crowns.
- Periodontics - oral infection management, root planing, curettage, and mouth guards.
- Removable prosthodontics - complete upper and lower dentures, immediate and partials, dental repairs and relines.
- Fixed prosthodontics - 3 unit bridges, crowns, splints
- Oral surgery - extract uncomplicated erupted teeth, alveoplasty, dry sockets, crown lengthening.
Satellite Dental Clinics are open during the academic year....
September - November, January - March, May - July
For specific dates and times available for appointments, please contact the Satellite Dental Clinic nearest you.
There are presently three Satellite Dental Clinics:
High Level Satellite Dental Clinic
c/o Northwest Health Centre
11202 - 100 Avenue
High Level, AB
T0H 1Z0
Telephone: 780-926-3977
Facsimile: 780-926-3989
La Crete Satellite Dental Clinic
10513 - 100 Avenue
La Crete, AB
T0H 2H0
Telephone: 780-928-3014
Facsimile: 780-928-3046
McLennan Satellite Dental Clinic
c/o Sacred Heart Community Health Centre
350 - 3 Avenue N.W.
McLennan, AB
T0H 2L0
Telephone: 780-324-3806
Facsimile: 780-324-3807
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