[On the need to create a new profession in France: The dental assistant specializing in advanced practices].

The law modernizing the French health care system sets out the legal framework for what can be called “advanced practice” for medical auxiliaries. This type of health care practice already exists in many countries. In France, we have chosen to deploy it within a team, starting with the nursing profession.

High-fidelity simulation in training dental students for medical life-threatening emergency.

Introduction: Any dental surgeon may be faced with a critical life-threatening emergency situation. In our university, all students in dentistry receive a standard course on emergency first aid. The aim of this prospective, comparative, single-centre study was to determine whether additional training on a high-fidelity patient simulator would improve student performance.