Evidence-based Dentistry: an Introduction

An overview of evidence-based dentistry research.

If the charge of EBD is to help dentists understand the rationale for the things they do and why they do them [2], then EBD “research data” must include cost analysis input from practicing dentists. I am a practicing dentist and the motivation to write this paper is to discuss information that will affect EBD relative to the cost(s) of service(s). Unlike medical care, and I will talk about this...

Evidence-based dentistry: prognosis.

Evidence-based guidelines--an introduction.

Recommendations in the form of clinical practice guidelines are increasingly common. Clinical guidelines are systematically developed statements designed to help administrators, practitioners and patients make decisions about appropriate health care for specific circumstances. In North America, guidelines developed by professional societies, government panels and cooperative groups are frequent...

The Status of Evidence-Based Dentistry in Iran

 Evidence-Based Dentistry (EBD) is very limitedly known in Iran, and has been defined as an approach to oral healthcare that requires the judicious integration of systemic assessments of clinically relevant scientific evidences, related to patient’s history and oral and medical conditions, with dentist’s clinical expertise and patient’s treatment needs and preferences. (1...

Evidence Based Practice in Dentistry

The evidence-based approach has become the mantra of health care and service delivery. But just what it means, whether it is feasible, how to build it and the outcome of its use are not well understood. The aims of this paper are to provide an overview of an evidence-based approach to the prevention of oral disease, to examine the assessment of clinical trial evidence, to examine emerging appro...