THE COMPETENCES OF THE STOMATOLOGY STUDENTS ON THE DENTAL CARE OF THE ONCOLOGICAL PATIENT OF HEAD AND NECK IN THE PUEBLA CITY (Mexico)

Blanca Estela Estrada Esquivel; Rogelio Gonzalez Correa; Yadira Zapien Ramirez

Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2017

THE COMPETENCES OF THE STOMATOLOGY STUDENTS ON THE DENTAL CARE OF THE ONCOLOGICAL PATIENT OF HEAD AND NECK IN THE PUEBLA CITY (Mexico)

Blanca Estela Estrada Esquivel, Rogelio Gonzalez Correa, Yadira Zapien Ramirez

Abstract :

The permanent changes of knowledge and the diversity of paradigms, demand competent professionals, therefore, Universities are responsible for acquiring the commitment to remain in a constant curricular update, with flexibility, total quality, educational reengineering, strategic curricular planning, institutional analysis, etc. Mastery of this knowledge makes you able to act effectively in professional situations, in order that their graduates meet expectations according to the needs required by society.

As in the case of the health area, where the increase in the incidence of patients with cancer is inevitable unavoidable as well as, oral sequelae suffered by people undergoing radiotherapeutic treatment at head and neck level, the undergraduate students in Stomatology must finalize already with skills and competencies to give correct attention to this population, medical indication is that all cancer patients should go to dental checkup before, during being subjected to treatment by radiotherapy, which implies, an increase in demand in the dental practice