Welcome to Evidence-Based Dentistry

Evidence-based dentistry: prognosis.

Overcoming barriers to implementing evidence-based dentistry.

A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry

Scientific evidence is a crucial underpinning of clinical practice. Nevertheless, the first series of articles aimed at providing clinicians with guidelines for critically appraising the evidence that informs clinical practices did not appear until 1981.1 Ten years later, the term “evidence-based medicine”2 first appeared in the medical literature. Subsequently, between 1993 and 2000, a group o...

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...