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Description
Dentists are responsible for improving population oral health. Thanks to their deep medical knowledge, they diagnose and treat patients with disorders of the teeth, gums, periodontal tissue, jaws or joints involved. These professionals can join a healthcare team and carry out coordinated multi-disciplinary actions with other healthcare professionals, such as oncologists and surgeons.
Fundamentally, dentists carry out population prevention and oral care, exercising the traditional role of these professionals. However, from the strict medical knowledge of the profession, they can also perform other functions, beyond direct attention to the person. For example, they can work as a dental visitor, promoting products from dental houses, providers of dental laboratories and clinics, as a research professor, generating knowledge within the academic and scientific field, or as a dental expert, advising as an expert in their field in legal matters. Within the expert work, the work derived from administration calls (any dentist can be called in the instructional phase or oral trial) must be distinguished from those who work for the private sector (usually in insurance companies).
Tasks
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Centre per al desenvolupament professional Porta22
Barcelona Treball (Porta22)
Llacuna, 156-162, 08018 Barcelona
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Monday to Friday from 9 to 18 h