AT THE DENTAL HOSPITAL

What is the primary role of the hospital dental department as described in the text?

• Serving as a referral center for patients with severe systemic disease and diagnostic problems of the mouth and jaws
• Conducting research on oral diseases
• Performing cosmetic dentistry procedures
• Providing routine dental care for the community

How may hospital oral medical problems be seen by the dentist, according to the text?

• Only as outpatients
• Only on consultation at the request of another hospital department
• Only as inpatients
• In three ways: as inpatients, outpatients, or on consultation

What are examples of problems rarely seen in outpatient practice but commonly seen in hospitalized patients, as mentioned in the text?

• Routine dental cleanings and fillings

• Teeth whitening procedures

• Orthodontic treatments

• Oral ulcers, oral bleeding, and oral infection related to medical conditions

What is essential for dental patients admitted to the hospital, according to the text?

• Completing a dental procedure before admission

• A dental insurance policy

• A referral from a general practitioner

• A physical examination by a physician

Why might a dentist choose to hospitalize a patient with severe medical problems, according to the text?

• To perform routine dental procedures

• To avoid dealing with complex oral diseases

• To have access to emergency resuscitation supplies, nursing care, consultants, clinical laboratory facilities, operating room, and anesthesiologists

• To avoid consultations with other medical disciplines

Hospitalizing a dental patient with severe medical problems is necessary primarily to avoid routine consultations with other medical disciplines.

• False
• True

Most hospitals require a physical examination by a physician, which is why the dentist shouldn't write the history of disease.

• true

• false

Once the dentist decides that a patient should be treated in the hospital, he should consider whether the dental procedure should be done on an inpatient or outpatient basis.

• true

• false

A dentist may choose to hospitalize a patient with severe medical problems to avoid dealing with complex oral diseases.

• False
• True

The hospital dentist should write the necessary orders for patients he admits including diet, frequency of “vital signs”, bed-rest, medications and laboratory tests.

• true

• false