The role of the dental nurse in patient education is a significant one – and has perhaps been greatly undervalued in the past.
As a dental nurse, you provide vital lines of communication between dentist and reception desk and patient and back again, relaying the information, repeating detail and explaining to the patient vital knowledge and instruction that he or she was possibly too nervous to ask the dentist to repeat.
That's not to say that the dentist is the bogeyman – or woman – but more that, having gathered their thoughts, patients very often turn to the dental nurse for reassurance, information and the finer detail.
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