Introduction: Evaluation is a critical issue to achieve the goals of academic education. The aim of this study was to evaluate the achievement level of educational objectives in Babol dental school using the CIPP (content, input, process, and product) model based on the point of view of students. Materials &Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed using a researcher made questionnai...

OBJECTIVE Rubber dam is recommended by the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD) for various restorative and endodontic procedures. To date, there has been no report of actual usage of rubber dam within the speciality of paediatric dentistry. The aim of this study was to assess the usage of rubber dam amongst paediatric dentistry specialists within the UK. METHODS A postal questionna...

This study sought to identify faculty, organization, patient pool, and procedures taught in predoctoral pediatric dentistry programs using a questionnaire sent to all fifty-five U.S. dental schools in 2001. Forty-eight (87 percent) programs reported an average of 3.9 full-time and 2.1 part-time FTE faculty, resulting in a mean faculty to student ratio of 1:6.4. One-third employ general dentists...

The purpose of this paper is to encourage and promote interdisciplinary dentistry. Sometimes, what appears to be a rather straightforward case instead becomes a more complex orthodontic case requiring more restorative and surgical treatment. The value of an interdisciplinary team is emphasized in such cases as these. Specific strategies are presented that can be applied to developing and mainta...

Three-dimensional scanning of the mouth is required in a large number of procedures in dentistry such as restorative dentistry and orthodontics [1,2]. The 1980s saw the introduction of the first digital intraoral scanner for dentistry by a Swiss dentist, Dr. Werner Mörmann, and an Italian electrical engineer, Marco Brandestini. Nowadays, ten intra-oral scanning devices for restorative dentistry...