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The Royal Army Dental Corps today
The Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC) provides dental care to the British Army both in barracks and on deployment While a significant proportion of most RADC dental officers' careers is spent working in permanent military primary care dental clinics, it is the ability of all RADC dental officers t...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8033279/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33837342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-021-2737-1 |
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description | The Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC) provides dental care to the British Army both in barracks and on deployment While a significant proportion of most RADC dental officers' careers is spent working in permanent military primary care dental clinics, it is the ability of all RADC dental officers to provide dental care when deployed that provides unique challenges only seen in the military environment. All RADC dental officers are able to deliver high quality care in temporary facilities. During a career the majority of RADC dental officers will have at least one job in a medical regiment providing the dental component of the British Army's rapidly deployable medical capability. This article covers some of the issues faced when delivering dental care outside the UK using portable equipment on a recent exercise. As RADC officers gain experience they are expected to lead increasingly large teams, both within primary care dentistry and some in the wider Army Medical Services, with the appropriate professional and military training to support their development. Working under pressure can be developed through the use of adventurous training and sport and the authors have pushed themselves well beyond their comfort zones in the air, on land and under the sea. |
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spelling | pubmed-80332792021-04-09 The Royal Army Dental Corps today Gibbs, Nicholas Porter, Kate Br Dent J General The Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC) provides dental care to the British Army both in barracks and on deployment While a significant proportion of most RADC dental officers' careers is spent working in permanent military primary care dental clinics, it is the ability of all RADC dental officers to provide dental care when deployed that provides unique challenges only seen in the military environment. All RADC dental officers are able to deliver high quality care in temporary facilities. During a career the majority of RADC dental officers will have at least one job in a medical regiment providing the dental component of the British Army's rapidly deployable medical capability. This article covers some of the issues faced when delivering dental care outside the UK using portable equipment on a recent exercise. As RADC officers gain experience they are expected to lead increasingly large teams, both within primary care dentistry and some in the wider Army Medical Services, with the appropriate professional and military training to support their development. Working under pressure can be developed through the use of adventurous training and sport and the authors have pushed themselves well beyond their comfort zones in the air, on land and under the sea. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-04-09 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8033279/ /pubmed/33837342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-021-2737-1 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to the British Dental Association 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | General Gibbs, Nicholas Porter, Kate The Royal Army Dental Corps today |
title | The Royal Army Dental Corps today |
title_full | The Royal Army Dental Corps today |
title_fullStr | The Royal Army Dental Corps today |
title_full_unstemmed | The Royal Army Dental Corps today |
title_short | The Royal Army Dental Corps today |
title_sort | royal army dental corps today |
topic | General |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8033279/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33837342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-021-2737-1 |
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