L'esperto Testori: "Ucbm formerà odontoiatra tecnologico etico ed empatico"
(Adnkronos) - "Il nuovo corso in odontoiatria che partirà nell’Università Campus Bio-medico (Ucbm) di Roma ha tutti i presupposti per formare una nuova figura di odontoiatra, un medico che sia allo stesso tempo tecnologico, etico, empatico ed infine possa essere al passo con i tempi per curare le persone”. Così TizianoTestori, Adjunct clinical associate professor department of Periodontics and oral medicine dell’Università del Michigan, nel corso dell’incontro multidisciplinare ‘Odontoiatria e protesi dentaria: quali competenze e professionalità oggi e domani?’, organizzato all’Università Campus Bio-medico di Roma dove, in autunno, partirà un nuovo corso di laurea in Odontoiatria
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00:00What is the future of science?
00:04The skills and professionalism of tomorrow can be summarized in three or four points.
00:12First, there is a hybridization of skills,
00:15that is, as Nick Negroponte said in 1995,
00:19that science will advance not so much for the study of science itself, of discipline,
00:27but when there will be a transversal knowledge.
00:30And so transversal knowledge means that we must, as doctors or dentists,
00:36prioritize the technologies, the new technologies,
00:41which are the digital, the new young people who do not become digital,
00:46which is not to buy a scanner, but to understand the philosophy of digitalization,
00:52will evolve and will be on the market.
00:55The other important thing is not to lose medical knowledge,
01:01because you can be the greatest digital dentist,
01:06but without knowing the disciplines, the basic sciences,
01:10anatomy, physiology, etc., you cannot be a good dentist.
01:16Third, humanization.
01:19You can learn proactive empathy
01:24and you can learn ethics,
01:27which unfortunately should be taught in the curriculum of all Italian universities,
01:33the ethics of medical behavior also in dentistry.
01:38These are the pillars, the assumptions for a dentist
01:44who can serve the population and can cure,
01:48not fix the teeth or put implants,
01:51but heal people in an ethical and empathic way.
01:56The new course, in my opinion, has all the assumptions,
02:00after the talks I had with the management of this new degree course,
02:06all the assumptions to have a new figure of a dentist
02:11who is technological, ethical, empathic
02:16and can be, over time, able to heal people
02:22and not fix the teeth, as we unfortunately sometimes see.
02:28This is a problem.
02:30The accessibility of the cures, the sustainability of the cures,
02:33is a very important issue.
02:37It can be thanks to the efficiency of the treatment plans
02:42and to the digitization, which makes fewer steps in the study
02:48and fewer steps to perform a prosthesis, a rehabilitation.
02:53So, by increasing the efficiency of the treatment,
02:56costs can be reduced for the population.
03:00Keep in mind another very important thing.
03:04We need to change the mindset,
03:08we need to think in a different way,
03:11because our profession is a service profession
03:14and therefore the earnings must be measured
03:18to the real benefit we give.
03:21So, without being denied,
03:25over the years, the dentist has always earned figures
03:30that were not measurable to the real benefit he gave.
03:34So, a regularization of the costs
03:40that the patient will have to pay
03:42is certainly well accepted by the population
03:47and we must, as a category, understand that times have changed.