Purpose
DPES was designed and built to serve primarily the instructional needs of the students at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. However, due to the public ramifications of the act of providing dental health care, a public extension to DPES was also developed. DPES has multiple purposes, which can be summarized as follows:
- It allows the students to visualize procedures through an easily accessible web-based interface;
- It provides a link between the didactical and clinical segments of the students' education at the Faculty;
- It acts as a constant resource of pertinent and academically relevant information on dental procedures, thus enhancing the quality of learning at the Faculty;
- It may be used by students before a treatment session to review procedural steps that need to be performed on a patient;
- It facilitates the students' development of their communication skills, in order for them to establish a better rapport with their patients;
- It provides patients with advance information about the procedure(s) for which they are scheduled. Thus, it facilitates the process of obtaining informed consent from patients for the procedure(s) they are about to undergo;
- It serves as a public repository of information for general purpose dental care education.
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