My Future profession

Dentistry became a medical profession a little over a hundred years ago.

Now dentistry is an exciting, challenging profession for intelligent, ambitious, and socially conscious professionals.

The dentist is a very important figure in public health. Dentists provide dental care that contributes to the quality of their patients’ lives. Dentists may detect oral cancer and other dangerous conditions of the body that manifest themselves in the mouth, and they are in the forefront of new developments in cosmetic and esthetic practices.

The dentist is a highly-qualified and well-trained professional who has skills and knowledge to plan and carry out the most complicated treatment. He must recognize his responsibility for his patients’ health.

The work of the dentist consists of

- the examination of teeth and oral cavity;

- making diagnoses;

- planning and carrying out treatment to restore oral health;

- prevention of dental and oral diseases.

The dental profession includes not only those who provide direct patient care, but those who teach, conduct research, and work in public and international health.

Currently there are more than 166,000 professionally active dentists in the United States. Ukraine has 19,000 dentists of various profiles.

POST-TEXT ASSIGMENTS

Exercise 8. Answer the questions:

1) When did dentistry become a medical profession?

2) Who should work in dentistry?

3) Why is the dentist a very important figure in public health?

4) What does the work of the dentist consist of?

5) How many dentists work in the USA?

6) How many dentists are there in Ukraine?

Exercise 9. Translate into English:

Захоплююча професія, забезпечувати стоматологічне обслуговування, виявити рак ротової порожнини, розумні та амбіційні особи, високо кваліфіковані стоматологи, мати знання та навички, нові розробки в косметичній та естетичній медицині, проводити складне лікування, поставити діагноз, профілактика захворювань зубів та ротової порожнини.

Exercise 10. Complete the definitions:

1) Dentist is a specialist …

2) Dentistry is the branch of medicine concerned with …

3) Preventive dentistry is the branch of dentistry concerned with …

4) Dental care is health care provided by …

Exercise 11. Translate the following word-combinations and use them in sentences:

- care

- disease

- chair

dental - examination

- formula

- health education (санітарна просвіта з питань догляду за зубами)

- practice

Exercise 12. Retell the text.

TEST

1. Dentistry became a medical profession a little over…

a) 50 years ago

b) 100 years ago

c) 200 years ago

d) 1000 years ago

e) In 17^th century

2. Dentists provide …

a) dental education

b) dental care

c) good knowledge

d) medical profession

e) socially conscious professionals

3. Currently there are more then … dentists in Ukraine.

a) 19,000

b) 1000

c) 166,000

d) one hundred

e) 50,000

4. The dentist must recognize his … for his patients’ health.

a) treatment

b) prevention

c) examination

d) responsibility

e) care

5. The dentist is a … professional.

a) complicated

b) important

c) highly qualified

d) dangerous

e) cosmetic and esthetic

6. The work of the dentist includes planning and carrying out treatment to... oral health.

a) make

b) do

c) treat

d) examine

e) restore

7. The dentist … oral cancer.

a) may detect

b) may to detect

c) detect

d) detecting

e) may detecting

8. Dentistry is an exciting, challenging profession … intelligent, ambitious, and socially conscious professionals.

a) in b) for c) from d) to e) with

9. Dentists’ work contributes … the quality of their patients’ lives.

a) to b) for c) in d) of e) about

10. What variant includes correct plural forms?

a) diagnoses, bacteriums, professions

b) teeth, bodys, countries

c) skills, bacteriums, children

d) feet, analyses; boys

e) womans, diseases, branches

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