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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
OCHOA ACOSTA, EMILIA MARÍA; JACOME-LIEVANO, SOFÍA; BELTRAN ZUNIGA, EDGAR O. and MARTIGNON BIERMAN, STEFANIA. Curricular-perspective analysis of opportunities and problematics around the new-caries paradigm in Colombian Dental Schools. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2023, vol.39, n.2, pp.364-377. Epub Mar 13, 2024. ISSN 0120-5552. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.39.02.700.847.
The Global Alliance-for-a-Cavity-Free-Future Colombian Chapter has embraced since 2010 to achieve by 2015 a national-wide cariology-teaching consensus on the new- caries paradigm as a disease continuum, with a series of stages from early to cavitated lesions.
Aim:
To analyse the opportunities and problematic situations around dental education in the new-caries paradigm from the curriculum perspective in the Colombian Dental Schools Association.
Methodology:
Two teachers from each school (n=23) were invited to participate: the responsible of most-caries teaching and the representative of curricular design (n=46). Discussion groups were conducted to analyse within the curriculum, facilitanting or limiting aspects, the new-caries paradigm incorporation process. These were complemented with a caries-management-guideline questionnaire answered by each school.
Results:
44 teachers of 22 schools participated. Within the opportunity category, a relevant trend was found related with the presence of cariology as a transversal axis of the curriculum. In the problematic situations category, four trends were observed: 1. Cariology teaching continues being linked to the risk approach, without embracing the social dimension of the patology; 2. In the theoretical aspects related with cariology, there is an approximation to the new paradigm, but in the clinical practice the traditional patology conception and the restorative emphasis predominate; 3. The current evidence of cariology is related to the adoption of the diagnostic criteria; and 4. There is a predominant caries-new paradigm management within the paediatric dentists.
Conclusion:
Caries cirricula delivered in University dental schools in Colombia are fragmented and require the incorporation of the new caries paradigm.
Keywords : curriculum; dental caries; education.