Evidence-based dentistry: The clinical connection to innovation

Evidence-based dentistry in clinical practice.

BACKGROUND Evidence-based dentistry, or EBD, is not a new concept for the dental profession in the United States. The American Dental Association has long relied on credible scientific evidence in setting policy and communicating with dentists and the general public. EBD provides an approach to oral health care that follows a process of systematically collecting and analyzing scientific evidenc...

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 dentistry: Part III. Searching for answers to clinical questions: finding evidence on the Internet.

The Internet is rapidly becoming a valuable source of information for all health care professionals, as well as for the consumers of health care--patients and their families and friends. Information on the Internet is uncontrolled and generally unevaluated. The quality filter of peer review, present in published dental journals, is usually lacking in Internet-based health sources. There are, ho...

Evidence-based dentistry: prognosis.

Overcoming barriers to implementing evidence-based dentistry.