[Oradlist] CBCT training

[caroline.hol at odont.uio.no]

Greetings from Arendal, Norway!


The Norwegian legislation on CT/CBCT can be summarized to this:

1. Distributers of dental x-ray machines must have a licence from the
Norwegian radiation protection authorithy to sell CBCT.

2. Any dental clinic can buy a CBCT but to use it leagally the clinic
needs a licence from the Norwegian radiation protection authorithy. The
competence demands to get the licence are for the clinic to have a
formalized collaboration with a maxillofacial or medical radiologist and a
physicist trained in medical physics.

3. The radiologist has responsibility for justification, optimalization
and diagnostics.

4. The physicist has responsibiliy for QA testing

5. The radiographer has to be a Radiographic thechnologist (3 years
training on medical imaging equipment) or a dentist. Both will need
apparatus specific training, though the legislation does not say who is
going to teach or for how long the training for the specific CBCT should
be.


How to become a maxillofacial radiologist in Norway:

The specialty training is 3 years of postgraduate education at a
university or similar facility. The main emphasis during the training is
on the clinical situation. There is also a number of theoretical courses
and seminars. In addition the candiates have to write a scientific or
educational paper and take several interdiciplinary courses. A large part
of the last year of the training is spent in a oral surgery/ENT department
and a medical radiology department at a medical hospital.
The theoretical curriculum includes radiation physics, -biology and
-protection, technical education on different radiological modalities,
anatomy and pathology and how these are visualized on different imaging
modalities, and so on.



Best regards,

Caroline Hol
DDS, maxillofacial radiologist
Secretary, Norwegian Society of Maxillofacial Radiology

Competence center of the dental health service, region South
Sørlandet hospital
Arendal
Norway






> Dear Oradlisters,
>
> The EADMFR Basic Principles on the use of Cone Beam CT states that
> adequate
>
> theoretical and practical training is needed to have the right to use
> a CBCT equipment.
>
> My question is: How is it applied in your country? How long such a
> training lasts (theoretical and practical), and what is the curriculum
> for it?
>
> Anyway, one can not go out to the traffic until having  a driver
> license!
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Gabor Ackermann
> Hungarian Society of Dento-Maxillo-Facial Radiology
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-- 
Caroline Hol
Tannlege, kjeve- og ansiktsradiolog

Tannhelsetjenestens Kompetansesenter Sør
Serviceboks 605, 4809 Arendal
Tlf. 37075300/62