PURPOSE: This cross-sectional study aimed to assess teaching staff and their students' perceptions regarding the students' competency for clinical performance following the preclinical fixed prosthodontics course and their suggestion regarding alternative methods to improve the preclinical training. METHODS: Fourthand fifth-year dental students and their teaching staff participated in a survey ...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to establish current levels of overseas volunteering and placement activity across all staff grades within the National Health Service (NHS) in the North West of England. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. INSTRUMENT Descriptive statistics. SETTING 4 main regional hospitals in the North West of England, and additional NHS staff training events. PARTICIPANTS Conveni...

Beta thalassemia (β thalassemia) is a group of inherited blood disorders. Case report A 17-year old boy accompanied by medical support staff visited our Department for preventive and pediatric dentistry within the University Dental Center Ss.Pantelejmon in Skopje, due to dental pain which comes from first molar tooth(36) low jaw left side.

Society's approach to children during the past half-century has changed dramatically, and a transformation of medical and hospital pediatric care has followed. Dentistry has been slower to incorporate sound, child-friendly approaches to care. Nonetheless, much has changed in dental practice pertaining to children. The regular involvement of parents in the surgical/therapeutic suite is one such ...

BACKGROUND India is one of the largest and most populated country in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it is estimated that around 23.9 lakh people are currently suffering with HIV. People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) require increasingly competent and compassionate health care, including oral health care. OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted with the objecti...