With issues such as shrinking revenue, access to care, faculty workloads, and graying faculty, dental schools are faced with difficult challenges that fall to dental school deans to manage. Do dental school deans have the organizational skill sets and ethical frameworks necessary to address the challenges now facing dental schools? The purpose of this article is to pose questions and suggestion...

PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS Dental personnel including dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants have been reported as having a high prevalence of upper-extremity musculoskeletal disorders, including carpal tunnel syndrome. Previous research has not involved dental assistant students at the onset of dental training. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the presence of median an...

Background: Fear of dental care prevents dental cleaning behavior and increases the prevalence of dental caries. This study was conducted to determine the effect of Trans-Theoretical Model constructs and fear of dental care on the dental cleaning behavior of students. <span style="font-family...

Thailand is geographically located in southeast Asia and its population is 63 million. Little has been published on dental education in Thailand. This paper provides information about Thailand regarding its dental history, dental school system including curriculum and dental licensure. There are eight public and one private dental school in Thailand. A six-year dental education leads to the DDS...

Ceramics are very important in the science of dental biomaterials. Among all dental ceramics, zirconia is in evidence as a dental biomaterial and it is the material of choice in contemporary restorative dentistry. Zirconia has been applied as structural material for dental bridges, crowns, inserts, and implants, mostly because of its biocompatibility, high fracture toughness, and radiopacity. H...

Background. Dental fear is considered to be one of the most frequent problems in paediatric dentistry. According to literature, parents’ levels of dental fear play a key role in the development of child’s dental anxiety. Hypothesis or Aim. We have tried to identify the presence of emotional transmission of dental fear among family members and to analyse the different roles that mothers and fath...

1. Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Awadh Dental College & Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. 2. Reader, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Awadh Dental College & Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Awadh Dental College & Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. 4. Assistant Professor, Department o...

1) Department of Dental engineering, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan 2) Tokyo Nishinomori Dental Hygienist College, Tokyo, Japan 3) Advanced Research Center, The Nippon Dental University School of Life Dentistry at Niigata, Niigata, Japan 4) Department of Histology and Developmental Biology, Tokyo Dental College, Tokyo, Japan (Accepted for publication, August 28, 2...

Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, PMNM Dental College and Hospital, Bagalkot, Karnataka, Private Practitioner, Mohali, Punjab, BDS, Dr. Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Science and Hospital, Panjab University, Chandigarh, BDS, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Dental Sciences and Research, Amritsar, Punjab, Prosthodontics, Surendera Dental College and Research Institut...

BACKGROUND To investigate the role of geography (place of residence) as a moderator in the relationship between dental caries disease and treatment experience and dental fear in 16-year-olds living in Malaysia. METHODS A multi-stage-stratified sampling method was employed. Five hundred and three, 16-year-olds from 6 government secondary schools participated in this study. The questionnaire ex...