A Dental Therapist is a professionally trained healthcare personnel trained to provide oral health educational and therapeutic dental treatment and services in a healthcare practice setting and at the three tiers of the Healthcare Delivery System in Nigeria, namely Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Tiers. As members of a multidisciplinary team, dental therapists provide preventive treatment services, disease prevention, and oral health promotion programs to maintain and improve health. [url]lizdentalcare.com[/url]

History of a Dental Therapy Profession in Nigeria.
The dental therapy profession has been in practice in other countries for a long time before it came down to Nigeria. The dental therapy school was first established in the year 1958 by Miss Vera Mary Creaton, A Briton at No. 1 Broad Street, Lagos state Nigeria for the training of Dental Hygienists which was later changed to Dental therapists,s and the school was relocated to Enugu state Nigeria and the name was changed to the Federal College of Dental Technology & Therapy, trans Ekulu, Enugu-Nigeria.

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