What to expect at your child’s dental appointment with our undergraduate dental students
When being treated by a student in the paediatric dental department at the Leeds Dental Institute, you can anticipate a comprehensive and supervised care tailored to your child’s specific needs. Our student practitioners work under the guidance of experienced professionals, ensuring that your child receives high-quality, individualised care. Our short video explains more about the process.
What to expect at your child’s dental appointment with our undergraduate dental students
here’s a quick video of what to expect when you come to the student clinic at
the Leeds dental Institute. I’ll hand over to Sophie to tell you more.
hi welcome to the Leeds Dental Institute my name is Sophie and sometimes I get treated by students. I really enjoy coming here appointment times are not that flexible but do tend to be the same time on the same day. mine are on Friday mornings there are no appointments on University holidays.
just want to make yourself comfortable Sophie in that Dental chair there um Dad just around there at the corner there and Alex in that yellow chair. so my name’s yra I’m a final year Dental student and I’ll be looking after you today and I’ve got kayin here she’s also a final year Dental student and she’ll be helping me out today. okay so I’m just going to quickly grab some gloves and masks and kayin will put a bib on for you is that all right. what we’re going to do is we’re just going to have a look inside your mouth is that
okay?
treatment takes longer than at a normal dentist I like this as it means I feel more
relaxed treatment is provided by Dental students who are supervised by their
teacher, a qualified dentist.
William are you okay to come and check patient? of course yeah thank
okay hello there Sophie how are you today? my name’s Lucy I’m one of the clinical tutors here. is it okay if I have a look as well? I’ll just put some
gloves on and take a look.
I’ve been coming to the student clinic now for a couple of months and my teeth are improving I’m even brushing them without my parents nagging me now.
at our student clinic we provide thorough and Comprehensive Dental Care. we will teach your child how to brush their teeth effectively and to prevent dental
decay. we have access to interpreters so please let us know if you need one. a
couple of important points should you need specialist treatment or treatment
with sedation or anesthetic we are able to make onward referrals as required. should your child not be brought to appointment we may also have to discharge you we are unable to provide long-term dental care so at a point at the end of treatment you will discharge your child.
we are very happy to answer any question questions that you have when we meet you and we look forward to seeing you soon.
Ward 49 – the Children’s Day Care Unit
This short video features Alison Mason, who will welcome you to Ward L49 which is the Children’s Day Care Unit.
Ward 49 – the Children’s Day Care Unit
Hello I’m Alison and welcome to ward 49. We are a children’s day case surgery ward with 26 beds. Which we use in the morning and then change patients for the afternoon.
We also have a medical bay for the ward. We have a parent’s room for the parents to get drinks when they want to.
We also have a play room for the children where I look after all the toys. Make sure they are all ok for the children. I also work on the ward as a play leader, so preparing children for an surgical operations and what happens when they go down to the anaesthetic room.
I also provide distraction therapy on the ward. For when children are having cannulas put in the medical bay.
Most of the bed have their own tv. if they haven’t got a tv we can bring DVD players, x box, iPad, drawing, book and loom bands.
Everyone is really nice they will look after you and give you everything you need. Give you advice.
People don’t stay over on this ward so if there were any children that needed to stay for any reason they would just get transferred to another ward.
The children here there are usually facilities for them to have two adults, two parents, grandparents with them.
They need to wash their hands when they come into the ward. You will see lots of different hand cleansers. If they go off the ward they will need to rewash them.
We wash our hands between every patient
Patients change so the morning patients will leave. Some have already gone from this morning. Some might be here into the afternoon depending on the type of operations.
If they are having their tonsils out they will need to stay for 6 hours after. So they could be here all day. Some of the children will come back from surgery, be here a couple of hours then go. On the afternoon we get more patients.
There is a senior sister, sister, nursing team, healthcare assistant, ward clerks and play leaders. They will be on a rota. The nurses look after the bay, so that nurse will be with you and the healthcare assistant will be with you.
So every nurse has a bay and look after that patient within that bay.