Given the limitation of access to specialized dental care at the national level, members of this health center of the Faculty of Dentistry -specially oral pathologists- have made themselves available to their colleagues and doctors who receive emergency care at the health system, in order to collaborate with the diagnoses of its patients; everything remotely. This initiative is part of the #ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad campaign, which seeks to make visible the different fronts of action of the members of the university community against the pandemic.
Thursday April 16, 2020 12:21 hrs.
Everything came up spontaneously, he says. Daniela Adorno, oral pathologist at the Oral Medicine Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry, who along with other colleagues did not hesitate to make themselves available to the doctors and health professionals who are now attending to patients with dental emergencies, and who began to turn to them with consultations regarding more complex cases.
In this scenario, although the Dental Clinic of the University of Chile It is exclusively attending the emergencies presented by institutionalized patients, and pathologists have wanted to contribute to the dental and medical community.
“Some colleagues have sought out various pathologists from us because suddenly some patients come to the emergency department that they do not know what to do, because our area is very specific,” explains Professor Adorno, who details that through sending photographs they have been able to guide their peers.
“Patients, because they obviously feel pain, go to the emergency department, but when it is there where there is a generalist or a general dentist, or a doctor,” he explains, before which oral pathologists – specialists in diagnosing or treating cancer and / or oral manifestations of systematic diseases, among others – “we can guide in relation to diagnosis and management, and even indicate whether biopsies should be performed.”
For this type of care, the professionals generated a form to collect information from the patients, and thus also keep a count of the care received, which was opened last week.
Together with Professor Adorno, head of the Oral Medicine Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry, doctors are part of this initiative. Iris Espinoza, Gina Pennacchiotti, Andrea Maturana, Marcela Farías, Ana Ortega, Gabriel Rojas, Raúl Sáez, Laura Chaparro and Richard Ahumada.
The telephone contacts of the specialists of the Faculty of Dentistry – available for medical consultations from 08:00 to 18:00 – are available here.
#ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad campaign
In order to support these initiatives, making them known to the community and to the country, the U. of Chile launched a call to detect the various projects that its members are developing, revealing their and their public role, all this under the motto #ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad
Those who are developing an initiative related to the response and approach to COVID-19, as well as its impacts on different dimensions of people’s lives, can send their projects to [email protected]
Everything came up spontaneously, he says. Daniela Adorno, oral pathologist at the Oral Medicine Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry, who along with other colleagues did not hesitate to make themselves available to the doctors and health professionals who are now attending to patients with dental emergencies, and who began to turn to them with consultations regarding more complex cases.
In this scenario, although the Dental Clinic of the University of Chile It is exclusively attending the emergencies presented by institutionalized patients, and pathologists have wanted to contribute to the dental and medical community.
“Some colleagues have sought out various pathologists from us because suddenly some patients come to the emergency department that they do not know what to do, because our area is very specific,” explains Professor Adorno, who details that through sending photographs they have been able to guide their peers.
“Patients, because they obviously feel pain, go to the emergency department, but when it is there where there is a generalist or a general dentist, or a doctor,” he explains, before which oral pathologists – specialists in diagnosing or treating cancer and / or oral manifestations of systematic diseases, among others – “we can guide in relation to diagnosis and management, and even indicate whether biopsies should be performed.”
For this type of care, the professionals generated a form to collect information from the patients, and thus also keep a count of the care received, which was opened last week.
Together with Professor Adorno, head of the Oral Medicine Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry, doctors are part of this initiative. Iris Espinoza, Gina Pennacchiotti, Andrea Maturana, Marcela Farías, Ana Ortega, Gabriel Rojas, Raúl Sáez, Laura Chaparro and Richard Ahumada.
The telephone contacts of the specialists of the Faculty of Dentistry – available for medical consultations from 08:00 to 18:00 – are available here.
#ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad campaign
In order to support these initiatives, making them known to the community and to the country, the U. of Chile launched a call to detect the various projects that its members are developing, revealing their and their public role, all this under the motto #ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad
Those who are developing an initiative related to the response and approach to COVID-19, as well as its impacts on different dimensions of people’s lives, can send their projects to [email protected]
Everything came up spontaneously, he says. Daniela Adorno, oral pathologist at the Oral Medicine Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry, who along with other colleagues did not hesitate to make themselves available to the doctors and health professionals who are now attending to patients with dental emergencies, and who began to turn to them with consultations regarding more complex cases.
In this scenario, although the Dental Clinic of the University of Chile It is exclusively attending the emergencies presented by institutionalized patients, and pathologists have wanted to contribute to the dental and medical community.
“Some colleagues have sought out various pathologists from us because suddenly some patients come to the emergency department that they do not know what to do, because our area is very specific,” explains Professor Adorno, who details that through sending photographs they have been able to guide their peers.
“Patients, because they obviously feel pain, go to the emergency department, but when it is there where there is a generalist or a general dentist, or a doctor,” he explains, before which oral pathologists – specialists in diagnosing or treating cancer and / or oral manifestations of systematic diseases, among others – “we can guide in relation to diagnosis and management, and even indicate whether biopsies should be performed.”
For this type of care, the professionals generated a form to collect information from the patients, and thus also keep a count of the care received, which was opened last week.
Together with Professor Adorno, head of the Oral Medicine Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry, doctors are part of this initiative. Iris Espinoza, Gina Pennacchiotti, Andrea Maturana, Marcela Farías, Ana Ortega, Gabriel Rojas, Raúl Sáez, Laura Chaparro and Richard Ahumada.
The telephone contacts of the specialists of the Faculty of Dentistry – available for medical consultations from 08:00 to 18:00 – are available here.
#ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad campaign
In order to support these initiatives, making them known to the community and to the country, the U. of Chile launched a call to detect the various projects that its members are developing, revealing their and their public role, all this under the motto #ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad
Those who are developing an initiative related to the response and approach to COVID-19, as well as its impacts on different dimensions of people’s lives, can send their projects to [email protected]
