KMPDC Dental Exams case studies
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The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) is the statutory body that regulates the training and practice of medicine and dentistry in Kenya through registration, licensing and inspections, as stated on its own website. For a dental graduate or dentist seeking to practise lawfully in Kenya, the credential that matters is entry on the Council's register of practitioners and a current annual practice licence. The KMPDC Dental Exams case studies are 5 cases and about 4,689 words.
1The Returning Graduate: Registration, Recognition and the Locum Offer
Dr Wanjiru Kamau, a Kenyan citizen, graduated with a BDS in 2018 from a university in Uganda, completed a one-year internship there in 2019, and has worked in Rwanda since 2020 under that country's licence. She relocates to Nairobi in March and applies to the Council for full registration and an annual practising licence.
957 words, about 5 min2Premature Admission at a Proposed Dental School
An inspection team visits the proposed School of Dentistry at a private health sciences college in Kiambu, which has applied for approval to admit 40 students to a five-year BDS programme. The team finds eight full-time lecturers, three of them with PhDs but none with a specialist dental qualification; ten phantom heads for preclinical technique work; an anatomy laboratory shared with the nursing programme; a draft memorandum of understanding with a county referral hospital that has still not been signed; and no budget line for clinical consumables.
885 words, about 4 min3The Nakuru Clinic Inspection: Infection Control, Radiation and Emergency Readiness
A Council inspection of a two-chair clinic in Nakuru records the following: the autoclave has no validation or spore-testing records for the last 14 months and no cycle log; handpieces are wiped with alcohol between patients and only pouched at the end of the day; examination gloves are washed and reused for the same patient's multiple procedures; extracted teeth are placed in a cardboard box; two of the five staff have no hepatitis B vaccination record; there is no emergency kit and the oxygen cylinder is empty; the OPG machine has no current licence and the operator has no formal training record; and the reference manual is the 2009 edition. In the preceding month three patients who had extractions at the clinic presented elsewhere with infected sockets.
942 words, about 5 min4Before-and-After Photographs, a Minor and a Review Discount
A dentist in Nairobi posts a series of before-and-after photographs on the clinic's Instagram account and on a public review platform. One image shows a 16-year-old patient's full face, identifiable by a distinctive birthmark, before and after composite bonding.
914 words, about 5 min5Persistent Numbness After a Third Molar Extraction
A 34-year-old patient had a surgical extraction of the lower right third molar at a private clinic. The dentist used a bur to section the tooth and recorded only one line in the notes: '38 surgically extracted, no complications'.
991 words, about 5 min