Would you like to share your knowledge or experience as a dentist/dental therapist?
I am a dental therapist working in Malaysia. But here we are called dental nurse instead of therapist. Currently no male nurse yet :) As a dental nurse our duties is to treat patients under 18 years old. We give oral health educations to the kids and treatments including restoration for both deciduous and permanent teeth, sealants, fluoride therapy, extraction for deciduous teeth. In certain area the nurses are given the training for permanent tooth extraction due to lack of dentist. We don't take radiographs or do pulpotomies like what I read in Wikipedia. We work at clinics, school based clinics and in mobile dental service or MDS. We have a very challenging work environment here especially the MDS team that visit rural areas and use obsolete equipments like micromotors. Some areas do not have electricity so we use generators and have to stay there like a week. MDS team usually visit 30 schools and more for a year and treat all the schoolchildren. Hot weather no air-cond and carrying, packing heavy stuffs around. Treatments at school based clinics and MDS are free because we work for the government.
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