Dental Education

Financing clinical dental education.

Many reports have documented the growing financial challenges faced by dental schools. This article examines the financial implications of two new models of dental education: 1) seniors spend 70 percent of their time in community clinics and practices, providing general dental care to underserved patients, and 2) schools develop patient-centered clinics where teams of faculty, residents, and se...

Dental education in Peru.

This paper provides information about Peru's dental history and dental school system, including the curriculum and dental licensure. With the increase in the number of dental schools in Peru, the number of dentists is also increasing. Until 1965, Peru had only three dental schools; currently, there are 14. Four of these dental schools are public, and ten are private. A five- or six-year dental ...

"Perspectives" on Dental Education.

The dental education environment.

The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (CCI), this article presents the CCI's view of the dental education environment necessary for effective change. The article states that the CCI's purpose is related to leading and building consensus in the dental community to foster a continuous process of innovative change in the educat...

Dental Education in Europe

Editorial Modern dental education has its roots in the USA where the first dental school started in Baltimore in 1840. It did not take long, however, before independent dental curricula were introduced in Europe leading to different patterns of education. During the last thirty years different activities in harmonization of European higher education have lead dental education also to face conti...