Today the treatment of adult patients with complex dental problems often requires an interdisciplinary collaboration between different specialties of dental medicine among them frequently orthodontics: interdisciplinary orthodontics. The advancements in material science, biomechanics and in understanding the biology of the alveolar bone led to improved treatments of cases that once seem to be h...

The advantages of interdisciplinary approaches to health care over multidisciplinary approaches are well documented. A multidisciplinary approach may not even involve a case conference with the chance of patient management being fragmented and less successful. For the patient the possibility of receiving a conflicting (or apparently conflicting diagnosis) and/or contradictory advice and/or conf...

objective: predoctoral dental implant education is included in dental school teaching curricula in most of the developed and some developing countries; however, it was not introduced into undergraduate curriculum of some countries and iranian dental schools. our purpose was to investigate the status of the predoctoral dental implant education of dental schools in the world. materials and method...

This paper argues that mathematical chemistry (MC) cannot just imitate mathematical physics (MP) but needs to develop its own interdisciplinary approach to avoid predictable obstacles. Although Kant’s dictum that chemistry does not lend itself to mathematical treatment was already refuted during his own lifetime, any useful combination of mathematics and chemistry essentially differs from MP. W...