You are one of the approximately 30% of people who have fear of going to the dentist ? This survey conducted by the European dental students association as part of a doctoral thesis will hardly reassure you. According to this survey of 23,300 students who completed their studies in 2015 in twenty-six states of the European Union, 10% of new European graduates in dentistry have never performed a single treatment and among the 90% who have carried out, the frequency is very heterogeneous.
One in three students has never laid a crown
According to the daily The world who obtained this thesis entitled “Evaluation of clinical practice in the course of odontological studies within the EU” and supported by Marco Mazevet, at the end of his studies, one out of three students has never crown pose and one in three has never prescribed drug treatment.
The National Confederation of Dental Unions, for its part, is alarmed: “How can young graduates be able to settle in our territory without ever having seen a patient! As it stands, free movement represents a threat to the quality of care and patient safety”. The Confederation therefore asks that “the State seize the European Commission very quickly” to have the European directive corrected to add the mention of “clinical training on patients” which is compulsory in order to be able to settle in another country of the EU. EU.
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