Dentists example

An examination by the dentist should eliminate many of the potential systemic issues that can affect the periodontium of this patient. For example, the age of the patient, her appearance, and questions about her diet should be enough to rule in or out issues concerning puberty and malnutrition. However, if systemic conditions cannot be ruled out, an additional physical examination by a physician may be necessary. Additional tests to be requested could include oral glucose tolerance test for diabetes mellitus, human chorionic gonadotropin levels for pregnancy, and/or qualitative and quantitative evaluation of bone marrow cells and blood cells for leukemia. 

These are examples of weakness of will. I decide to do something, but when the time comes to execute the decision I do something else. This phenomenon cannot be reduced to a tendency to favor the present over the future, or the near future over the distant future. That tendency might explain my never making an appointment with the dentist in the first place, but not my making it and then canceling it. It could explain why I spend most of my inheritance in the first year, but not why I... 

The more money you have, the easier this is to do. For example, you might buy dental insurance. But perhaps your dentist does not choose to participate in such a plan. The policy is good only if you switch dentists. Solution Insure yourself. Instead of paying, say 15, into a policy each month, use the money to build a kitty for future dental bills. Such a fund becomes a self-insurance policy. 

If you have a dental appointment, it s good to talk with your dentist about finding the safest way for you to visit. For example, you might ask beforehand that your dentist and his assistant refrain from wearing perfume or aftershave, and you can set a time for your visit so that you won t have to share the waiting... 

Finally, there are very short-acting barbiturates that produce almost immediate unconsciousness when injected intravenously. Thiopental (Pcntothal) is the main example dentists and doctors use it as an anesthetic for surgical operations. Since it wipes out awareness so fast and leaves no memory of the experience, no one takes it for fun. 

For example, in certain cultures specific rites and rituals may involve a pain that is readily accepted by the people within that particular society. Scientists believe that people in these cultures experience that pain to a far lesser degree than others from different cultures would if they underwent the same experience. In such cases, the ability to focus on other aspects of the ritual, such as its social or religious ramifications, may act as a psychological sedative that helps the individual better tolerate the pain or, perhaps, feel no pain at all. The expectation of pain also determines how much pain is felt. Two people, for example, may go to the dentist the person who has greater anxiety about the experience is likely to feel a greater amount of pain. Tension and emotional states may also cause biochemical changes that lower the amount of endorphins (naturally occurring opiates) produced by the brain. 

Some individuals go to more than one physician, and it is common for a patient to be treated by one or more specialists in addition to a family physician. Some patients are also seeing other health professionals (e.g., dentists, podiatrists, etc.), who may prescribe medication. It is frequently difficult for one prescriber to become aware of all the medications that have been prescribed by others for a particular patient, and many difficulties arise from such situations. For example, one physician may prescribe an antihistamine having sedative properties for a patient for whom another physician has prescribed an antianxiety agent, with the possible consequence of an excessive depressant effect. Even though the patient is seeing different prescribers, he will often have the prescriptions dispensed at the same pharmacy. Therefore, the pharmacist, by maintaining patient medication records, plays an important role in the detection and prevention of drug-related problems. 

This introduces the different NHS prescribers (for example, doctor, dentist, nurse, supplementary prescribes etc.) within the community. Following on from this are details of the dispensing process to be followed when supplying medicines against NHS prescription forms, along with a collection of worked examples. 

Therefore, it would not be uncommon for a dentist to prescribe analgesic medication on a non-NHS (private) prescription form for a patient under his care, even if that item was not in the Dental Practitioners Formulary (see Section 3.2.2). However, it would be unusual for them to prescribe, for example, medication for the treatment of schizophrenia. If a pharmacist received a non-NHS (private) prescription form from a dentist for medication to treat schizophrenia, the pharmacist should query the supply with the prescribing dentist to confirm that the dentist is prescribing within their area of competence. 

Conversely, emotions may enhance the ability to take account of long-term consequences, by acting as current motivational proxies (Frank) or as current cognitive signals (Damasio). Example, shame that may help me resist an urge to cancel my appointment with the dentist. 

Erosion is defined as the loss of hard tissue by chemical means not derived from bacteria, i.e. the dissolution of hard tissue by acid where the acid source is not the oral bacteria [5], Erosion may be caused by either intrinsic (e.g. stomach acid) or extrinsic (e.g. dietary) sources. Erosion is often associated with the consumption of acid products, such as fruits or acid beverages, or with medical conditions where reflux of acidic into the oral cavity is present. Interestingly, the term erosion is widely used in other fields where the definition is rather different. For example, in the field of tribology, erosion refers to the loss of material from a surface by solid or liquid impacts [6], In the classical tribological definitions, the mechanism dentists refer to as erosion would be described as corrosion, or tribo-chemical wear. 

A useful property of metallic mercury is that it forms amalgams with other metals, which have a host of uses. For example, metallic sodium is produced as an amalgam by electrolysis of molten sodium chloride. Dentists use a 50% amalgam with an alloy of silver for fillings. 

It is often necessary to know exactly where the incident x-ray beam strikes the specimen, as, for example, when one wants to obtain a pattern from a particular grain, or a particular part of a grain, in a polycrystalline mass. This is sometimes a rather difficult matter in a back-reflection camera because of the short distance between the film and the specimen. One method is to project a light beam through the collimator and observe its point of incidence on the specimen with a mirror or prism held near the collimator. An even simpler method is to push a stiff straight wire through the collimator and observe where it touches the specimen with a small mirror, of the kind used by dentists, fixed at an angle to the end of a rod. 

They may only be sold or supplied from a registered pharmacy, by or under supervision of a pharmacist in accordance with the prescription of a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner or other qualified prescriber. Nurse independent prescribers, pharmacist independent prescribers and supplementary prescribers can write prescriptions for POM. Given below are examples of the types of drug that are POM ... 

Visible light is a type of electromagnetic radiation—a form of energy that exhibits wavelike behavior as it travels through space. Other examples of electromagnetic radiation include microwaves that cook your food, X rays that doctors and dentists use to examine bones and teeth, and waves that carry radio and television programs into homes. 

There is a considerable difference in the standard and type of information required by the various national regulatory authorities throughout the world. For example, until recently it was possible to perform clinical trials within some European countries without submission of any manufacturing information in other European countries Phase I clinical trials could be performed solely on the permission of a local ethics committee or just a doctor or dentist s approval. Requirements have now been harmonised across the EU with the Clinical Trials Directive discussed previously. Further attempts at harmonisation continue through ICH or are being driven by various MRAs. In the USA, a considerable amount of information has always been required for all phases of clinical trial from Phase I to Phase III. 

Sometimes solving one problem leads to another. One such example involves the catalytic converters now required on all automobiles sold around much of the world. The purpose of these converters is to remove harmful pollutants such as CO and NO2 from automobile exhausts. The good news is that these devices are quite effective and have led to much cleaner air in congested areas. The bad news is that these devices produce significant amounts of nitrous oxide, N2O, commonly known as laughing gas because when inhaled it produces relaxation and mild inebriation. It was long used by dentists to make their patients more tolerant of some painful dental procedures. 

Numerous inhalation anesthetics are not ethers at all. Nitrous oxide, for example, is a simple inorganic compound with the formula N2O. Also known as laughing gas, it is used as a general anesthetic by some dentists because its effects wear off quickly. Halothane, currently a popular general anesthetic, is a simple halogen derivative of ethane. It is nonflammable, does not cause nausea or similar upsets, and its effects wear off quickly ... 

To get some idea how fiist some common objects rotate, consider the feUowii examples a dentist s drill runs at 400,000 rpm a current state-of-the-art computer hard drive runs at 7200 rpm the earth goes throug i one complete revolution in 24 hours, thus the rotational speed of earth is 15 d ees per hour or 1 degree every 4 minutes. 

The smell of solvent on the breath is related to the dose and duration of exposure and may last for many hours. The so-called glue-sniffer s rash (perioral eczema) is probably caused by repeated contact with glue in a plastic or other bag held to the face. Although primarily a phenomenon of adolescence, it must be remembered that adults, especially those with ready occupational access to abusable volatiles, may also indulge in VSA. In the late 1970s, for example, it was estimated that some 1-1.6% of US dentists were abusing nitrous oxide. 

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