抄録
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics was held in June 2021 under the auspices of the Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Ohu University, as the first online meeting in the history of the society.
The symposium “Maxillofacial Prosthetic Treatment in Hospital Dentistry” was organized by Dr. Tetsuo Yamamori, President of the meeting, and three presenters introduced their approaches to multidisciplinary cooperation from the standpoint of their respective institutions. Three symposiasts then discussed the problems and solutions of maxillofacial prosthetic treatment in hospital dentistry.
A common problem in hospital dentistry is that maxillofacial prosthetics is part of the overall work of hospital dentistry. Therefore, there are various constraints on maxillofacial prosthetic treatment, such as time, manpower, technology and geography.
Suggested solutions to this problem were: the inclusion of dental practice in the clinical path, the effective use of clinic time, exchanges with other institutions, participation in hands-on seminars, dispatch of maxillofacial prosthetists from university hospitals, development of local core leaders, and enhancement of online conferences and seminars.
It seems necessary to consider the improvement and enhancement of maxillofacial prosthetic treatment in hospital dentistry in order to promote it widely.
