Caplin RL Grey Areas in Restorative Dentistry – Don't Believe Everything You Think!.: J and R Publishing; 2015
Caplin RL Grey Areas in Restorative Dentistry – Don't Believe Everything You Think!.: J and R Publishing; 2015
Caplin RL Grey Areas in Restorative Dentistry – Don't Believe Everything You Think!.: J and R Publishing; 2015
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Grey Areas in Restorative Dentistry: Part 2. The Diagnosis: Dental Pain Robert L Caplin Dental Update 2024 51:11, 707-709.
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Robert LCaplin
BDS, MSc, DGDP (RCS Eng), Dip Teach Ed (King's), Retired Senior Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Dentistry and Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London; General Dental Practitioner, London
In order to help those who seek our care with a problem, whether real or perceived, overt or covert, it is essential to make a diagnosis. Arriving at a diagnosis involves multiple steps, including taking a dental/medical history, performing a physical examination, undertaking diagnostic tests, and then examining the data to come to the best explanation for the situation presented. Only after this process can the options for management be properly considered
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Pain management is an essential part of dental practice and requires an accurate diagnosis.
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When a patient attends a dental practice with an overt problem, it is essential that the practitioner makes a diagnosis so that effective measures can be put into place to address the issue. However, even at a routine check-up visit, the dentist may come across a covert situation that again, will require a diagnosis to be made.
What are we doing when we make a diagnosis? The ‘art or act of identifying a disease from its signs and symptoms’ or the ‘decision reached by diagnosis’.1 Arriving at a diagnosis involves multiple steps including taking a dental/medical history, performing a physical examination, undertaking diagnostic tests, and then examining the data to come to the best explanation for the illness, although there will be times when it is not possible to come to a definitive diagnosis and two or more possibilities will have to be considered, that is, it could be this, and/or this.
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