PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION IN PATIENTS WITH FISSUM PALATUM DURUM

Congenital labio-palatal fissures occupy leading place in children`s morbidity. These are malformations ranked with first place among the congenital abnormalities of the maxillofacial region with frequency of 1:1000. The obturators serve for closure of congenital or acquired bone and soft tissue defects in the region of hard and soft palate. They are intended to interrupt the connection between nasal and oral cavities thus enhancing speech, breathing, eating, and drinking. We aimed at working-out the dental prosthetic design which has functional fitness and maximal esthetics and enables the patients to improve their speech, breathing, eating, and drinking liquids along with successful re-socialization. We arranged a multidisciplinary team of dental physicians and dental technicians. Recovery involved two main stages: orthodontic treatment and prosthetic rehabilitation. By the formation of this team, a contemporary, highly esthetic partial prosthesis with an obturating part was elaborated. The patient reported improvement of speech, breathing, eating and drinking liquids as well as gaining self-confidence due to obliteration of the unfavourable sequelae of the defect

COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF DENTAL TECHNICIAN STUDENTS AND DENTAL MEDICINE STUDENTS IN THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA

The communicative function of the psyche is associated primarily with the collaboration of people. Purpose of this study was to determine whether students in the specialities of dental technician and dental medicine can communicate and what is the level of their communication skills. The study covered 100 students, of which 44 were of dental technician and and 56 of dental medicine. We used a questionnaire containing 15 items and examining psychological communication skills in a teaching environment. Assessment using the five-point scale from 1 (never) to 5 (always) was applied. Statistical analysis included comparative analysis -X2 analysis, Spearman`s correlation and structural analysis. The comparative analysis showed a significant difference in communication skills among students in dental technician and dental medicine (X2 =20, 75;

DENTAL ART - A DIDACTIC EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATION OF THE SPECIALITY OF DENTAL TECHNICIAN IN THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VARNA

The authors performed a didactic experiment with an innovative approach to provoke fantasy and creative potential in students for raising the manual skills, knowledge of working with basic materials and tools used in dentistry, the sense of shapes and colors - qualities, necessary and important for the successful completion of each dental mechanics. To fulfill this aim, we carried out this experiment periodically during the past 10 years at the end of the exercises of orthodontics and maxillofacial prosthetics on the basis of children`s game and entertainment during the paedodontic training. Subjects of this study were students of this speciality in the Medical College of Varna. A total of 100 Bulgarian and foreign students were enrolled. Based on the results obtained we could claim that usage of this in- novative approach provokes fantasy and creative potential as well as improves and supports students` training devoted to any other materials and instruments in dental practice

Доклади от научната сесия 70 години Медицински колеж-Варна 5 Октомври 2012

Варненски медицински форум (Varna Medical Forum) V. 1, No 1 (2012

Доклади от научната сесия 70 години Медицински колеж-Варна 5 Октомври 2012

Варненски медицински форум (Varna Medical Forum) V. 1, No 1 (2012

The Scientific Session Devoted To The 70th Anniversary Of The Medical College Of Varna October 5, 2012 Varna

Варненски медицински форум (Varna Medical Forum) V. 1, No 1 (2012

Abstracts Of The Proceedings And The Posters From The Third Scientific Session Of The Medical College Of Varna

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