Geriatric dentistry: Is rethinking still required to begin undergraduate education?

Cosmetic dentistry is still dentistry.

In support of geriatric dentistry at the undergraduate level.

In October 2005, I participated in a geriatric dentistry workshop sponsored by the British Columbia Dental Association (BCDA). The topic of my presentation was delivering dental care to the patient and a facility in a mobile setting. I believe the reason that this workshop was successful was that the faculty of dentistry at the University of British Columbia, with the support of BCDA, has begun...

Geriatric dentistry: a changing paradigm.

VOLUME 45 • NUMBER 4 • APRIL 2014 The practice of dentistry has changed dramatically. Technology, patient expectations, life expectancy, dental therapy, and the internet have had a profound impact on the dentistry of today. Baby boomers are living longer and are more affluent, better educated, and living healthier and more productive lives. Unlike previous generations, they have benefitted from...

M Is Formocresol Still Safe for Use in Pediatric Dentistry ?

However, we are in the era of evidence-based dentistry; a process that should restructure the ways in which clinical situations are managed, with an emphasis on the integration of good judgement in conjunction with the best available evidence and the patient’s views and values in the making of clinical decisions. Thus, clinical decision making should rely on evidence rather than authority, and ...

Will undergraduate geriatric medicine survive?

of relevant research to establish best practice, hopefully arising as much from within the NHS as the academic sector, through its reconfigured R&D programme including the new Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN). • The fifth consequence would be the emergence of an evidence base that could properly inform the commissioning process and better define the roles of pr...