Category | Work task | Details |
---|---|---|
Treatment | Impression | Taking an impression of the patient's teeth |
Photo | Camera documentation of the case | |
Craft activities* | Umbrella term for all work stages that are not included in the aforementioned activities | |
Palpation | Palpating patientsā muscles/jaw joints | |
Break | Short breaks during treatment | |
Screening | First/check-up screening of patients | |
Contra-angle/ultrasonic handpiece | Using contra-angle/ultrasonic handpiece during treatment | |
Office | Consult files | Reading patient files (results/tooth model/X-ray) |
Office work | Writing entries for patient files/computer work | |
Model analysis | Analysis and conception of treatment plans based on teeth models and X-ray examinations | |
Phone call | Having phone conversations | |
Other activities | Meeting | Medical consultation among peers |
Talk | Conversations with patients and staff as solitary activity | |
Hygiene | Hygienic measures (washing/disinfecting hands, wearing gloves/face masks) | |
Take/deposit instrument | Taking up instruments from a drawer/putting instruments down during and after treatment | |
Laboratory | Any kind of laboratory work | |
Walk | Covering distances |
*Craft activities in group 1: extraction, pain diagnostics, implantation, placing an injection; and in group 2: archwire-/elastics change, removable appliance, fixed appliance, mini-implant, filling, prophylaxis, splint.