If I asked you what your role in periodontal care is, I wonder if you would say ‘suction’ or ‘recording the charts’? I hope you would be thinking of oral hygiene, or helping to record disease and education. The reason I say that is I think it is all those things and more. Before becoming a dental hygienist, I was a dental nurse and I used to think the first two answers. But, since working as a hygienist, I value dental nurses far more than as a dental nurse.
Dental nursing is as much assisting the patient as it is the dentist. Often dental nurses will work on reception, will sell oral hygiene products and may give advice about how a product works. All of this is part of periodontal care.
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