The dental therapy curriculum : meeting needs and challenges for oral health care in South Africa.

This study reviews the three-year Bachelor of Dental Therapy curriculum, which was introduced at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1980. The dental therapist was introduced to the health care system during the apartheid era, to improve access to basic dental services to disadvantaged sectors of the...

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Main Author: Singh, Pratima Kissoon.
Other Authors: Combrinck, Martin.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6234