Transition is the purposeful, planned movement of adolescents and young adults with special health care needs from child centred to adult orientated health care systems. This stage poses great change:including from education to work, care and residential arrangements, changes in personal development, self-perception, and relationships with other adults. The dental home may also change from school or paediatric specialist care to the adult services, and successful dental care transition involves consideration of the context of their other lifestyle transitions.
Topics to be covered include:
- Social Factors: transitioning from childhood to adulthood, how adult care is different, challenges with transition, involving carers vs parents, and decision-making and consent.
- Clinical Factors: the accumulation of comorbidities and complexity, treatment planning for the longer term, oral care plans
About our speaker:
Dr Jee-Yun Leung
Special Needs Dentist
Dr Jee-Yun Leung is a Specialist in Special Needs Dentistry passionate about tackling oral health inequalities faced by persons living with special needs. She is a Consultant at Fiona Stanley Hospital where she is the Lead of Dental Specialties, sees patients with medical complexities and disability, is part of the Head & Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Team, and coordinates the UWA DMD4 student placement. Concurrently she is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. She serves on the State Oral Health Advisory Committee of the WA Government Chief Dental Office, and the Executive Committee of the Australia New Zealand Academy of Special Needs Dentistry (ANZASND). She holds membership withthe RACDS and ADA.
Jee-Yun was awarded the prestigious UWA Fogarty Scholarship, University of Adelaide G.O. Lawrence Scholarship and several prizes for her undergraduate and specialty training. She has completed a Bachelor of Dental Science with Honours (University of Western Australia), Masters in Special Care Dentistry (Eastman Dental Institute, University College London), Diploma in Special Care Dentistry (Royal College ofSurgeons England), and Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (University of Adelaide). Her research includes SND oral health delivery systems, quality of online dental information, and early radiographic changes in osteoradionecrosis. She contributed 6 textbook chapters to A Practical Approach to Special Care Dentistry(Wiley-Blackwell 2022).
Webinar Times:
QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS - 8pm
SA, NT - 7.30 pm
WA - 6pm
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