UK dental laboratory technicians' views on the efficacy and teaching of clinical-laboratory communication

Current trends in complete denture teaching in British dental schools

“…The view and the satisfaction expressed that graduates are equipped to communicate with technicians in commercial dental laboratories when they enter vocational training is in direct disagreement with the fi ndings of Juszczyk et al, 8 who found that laboratory owners had the opposite view. The relatively small amount of technical work done by students compounds the problem of lack of experience and the ability to communicate with technicians.…”

Audit to assess the quality of communication between operators and technicians in a fixed prosthodontic laboratory: educational and training implications

“…Juszczyk et al. suggested that newly qualified dentists do not have an appropriate understanding of laboratory techniques and dental schools are still preparing new graduates inadequately to communicate effectively with dental technicians.…”

“…The importance of good communication between dental practitioners and dental technicians has been highlighted by numerous studies (1)(2)(3)(4)(5). Juszczyk et al (6) suggested that newly qualified dentists do not have an appropriate understanding of laboratory techniques and dental schools are still preparing new graduates inadequately to communicate effectively with dental technicians.…”

Partial denture design comparisons between inexperienced and experienced undergraduate students and the teaching staff of a UK dental school

“…Overall this does not help students to carry out the number of cases needed to become confi dent at RPD designing. During their outreach training 61 fourth/ fi fth year students attended 20 weeks of outreach for four days per week and carried out from 0-20 acrylic RPDs (two students made 0) and 0-6 Co/CR RPDs (43 students made 0, 18 made from [1][2][3][4][5][6]. This means that during their university training the most conscientious student could qualify having undertaken a maximum of 24 RPDs and some students can leave having completed no Co/Cr RPDs and only one or two acrylic RPDs!…”

“…Equally there have been a number of surveys which show that in many cases the technicians are asked to design the RPD by the clinician 3,10 and this appears to have been a long standing problem. 14 Previous studies 15 have been carried out which compared the qualifi ed dental surgeons' ability to design partial dentures and communicate the design to the dental technician.…”