As a dentist, would you have to take vitals? I know you would have to take a patient's blood pressure sometimes. Do professors walk you through when you have to?
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My school? Every appointment. Invenst in an automatic cuff.
Temperature is about yo be the new norm as well.
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Depends on your school, mine “gave” (aka tuition) us manual ones. But no there arent hundreds of BP cuffs lying around our clinic.
They teach you, but personally I did not get enough practice to use those so I always prefer the electronic ones. The dental assistants in our clinic seem to be better than us students at using manual BP cuffs.
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You should learn how to use manual even if you don't.
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In dental school, we had to do BP every appointment. In real world, my assistants/hygienist do at exams and extractions. I personally have only taken one BP since graduating - only after my assidtant failed to get it. But in school, get a electronic cuff - they're generally not as reliable as someone who's really good at getting them manually - but close enough, and will save you a few minutes of time that you'd otherwise be fumbling around with the cuff
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