Browsing Prosthodontics by Author "Evans, William G."

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  • Embracing the ageing patient 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Lowe, L.G.; Shackleton, J.L.; Evans, William G. (South African Dental Association, 2018-04)
    “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature, and everyone is a rose, but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone is made up of infinitely layered petals, and everyone has something indescribably precious at ...
  • "In my hands” : Part 9 : The case for case reports 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Evans, William G.; Harryparsad, Ashana; Gani, Fatima; Vally, Zunaid Ismail (South African Dental Association, 2017-05)
    Evidence based practice (EBP) was developed to assess available scientific evidence and rank it according to the rigour, strength and precision of the research. It aims to provide guidance for clinicians on which to ...
  • “In my mouth” : Part 11 : Ethical concerns regarding dental over-treatment and under-treatment 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Evans, William G.; Gani, Fatima (South African Dental Association, 2017-07)
    Dental practitioners have been accused of over-treating, failing to treat, or delaying treatment. However, deciding precisely on what constitutes each is not easy or clear cut, and it is often hard to draw a distinct ...
  • Is it better to be good or to do good? 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Babiolakis, George Paul; Evans, William G. (South African Dental Association, 2021-05)
    People have contemplated what it entails to be good and to do good. Philosophers propose that being good is an idea about yourself or others, while doing good is an action, towards yourself or others. Other theorists ...
  • Part 12. Dental images : ensuring the understanding, acceptance and consent of and by patients to all possible usages 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Harryparsad, Ashana; Evans, William G. (South African Dental Association, 2017-08)
    There is an idiom which says "A picture is worth a thousand words". At no time could this be truer than in the very visual digital world of today. The Internet, having the ability to mix text with other media such as ...
  • Part 13. Issuing medical certificates : how sick do you have to actually “Be sick”? 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Evans, William G.; Gani, Fatima; Nethononda, Portia (South African Dental Association, 2017-09)
    Absenteeism from work as a result of sickness places a tremendous financial burden on the economy of any country. In 2013, the Adcorp index revealed that 3.96 million South Africans were absent from work due to illness ...
  • Part 15 : Secondary use of unethically obtained data : fifty shades of grey/ aye/nay 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Evans, William G.; Gani, Fatima; Vally, Zunaid Ismail; Dullabh, Hemant D. (South African Dental Association, 2017-11)
    On a regular basis, dental practitioners have to make decisions regarding their care of their patients. Previously, dentists did this almost instinctively, drawing upon personal resources such as clinical experience, ...
  • Patients are people treating the person, not the problem 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Evans, William G.; Dullabh, Hemant D. (South African Dental Association, 2018-03)
    A health-care practitioner is an individual who provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic manner to people, families or communities. Sadly, many clinicians could ...
  • Practicing beyond your expertise - Part 10. Who's to blame, who's to name? 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Vally, Zunaid Ismail; Evans, William G. (South African Dental Association, 2017-06)
    A prosthodontist was recently called by a dentist who was asking for advice about a patient who was anaesthetized and lying in the chair at that time. The patient was partially dentate in the mandible, with severe periodontal ...
  • To pen or to probe prescribing versus treating, how to decide 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Evans, William G.; Buchanan, Glynn Dale; Warren, Nichola; Fernandes, N.A. (Nelson Alexander) (South African Dental Association, 2018-02)
    The question of wellness was explored in Part 15 of this series, based on the definition of health proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). However that description is now over 70 years old and does not fully ...