Tseveenjav Battsetseg. Preventive dentistry in Mongolia. Department of Oral Public Health, Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2004. 83 pp. ISBN 952-91-7349-0 The current study investigated preventive dentistry in Mongolia by assessing future and practicing dentists’ professional preventive practice and knowledge and the oral health outcomes dental professionals achieved fo...

A reliable test of manual dexterity could potentially have utility in dental education. Recently, haptic technologies have emerged that may offer a means of testing manual dexterity in the preclinical setting. The purpose of this study was to determine whether performance on a complex haptic simulator exercise was associated with preclinical operative dentistry practical examination scores or t...

PURPOSE In 2002 a survey of European dental schools was conducted. The purpose of the survey was to determine the curricular structure, teaching philosophies and materials used in predoctoral implant dentistry courses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-six European dental schools were randomly selected from the Association for Dental Education in Europe representing 33 countries. A questionnaire wa...

The capacity to locate, access, and appraise information is an important skill required for success in dental school and beyond. An interdisciplinary course was implemented to teach first-year dental students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Dental Branch about evidence-based dentistry, search strategies, critical appraisal of the literature, and dental informatics. S...

1. Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Mechanic Engineering, Babol University of Technology, Babol, Iran 2. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 3. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 4. Dental Materials Research Center,...

In the preclinical labs of McGill’s faculty of dentistry, the tried-and-true is fused with the innovative, as dental manikins share space with work stations augmented by plasma screens and keypads. The high-tech equipment serves an important purpose, helping students acquire skills during the condensed preclinical session. This portion of the DMD program lasts for just under 6 months in the fin...

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...

OBJECTIVES This longitudinal study was aimed to investigate the association between didactic grades and practical skills for dental students and whether didactic grades can reliability predict the dental students' practical performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Didactic and practical grades for graduates from the Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, between the years 2009 and 2011 we...