One of the unique features of the University of Manitoba faculty of dentistry is its successful administration of a substantial network of community-based dental programs that serve disadvantaged populations throughout Manitoba and northern Canada. Many of these dental programs act as host locations for the service learning experiences required of all University of Manitoba dentistry and dental...

Introduction. As English is today's dominant language of science and technology (EST), students having passed general and EST courses need to interact primarily with the scientific community specially in their field of study for various purposes, including the use of educational films. This study specifically aims to evaluate the proficiency of Iranian students of dentistry in understanding edu...

it is an honor and pleasure to serve as the guest editor for the educational research in medical sciences journal. i would like to thank the cooperation of vice chancellery for research and technology of kermanshah university of medical sciences that kindly helped us throughout this special issue. since kermanshah school of dentistry has recently initiated its activity, it is necessary to obtai...

• Basic Sciences: Gustavo Pompermayer Garlet and Carlos Ferreira Santos • Endodontics: Ivaldo Gomes de Moraes, Flaviana Bombarda de Andrade and Marco Antonio Hungaro Duarte • Orthodontics: Guilherme Janson and Daniela Gamba Garib Carreira • Periodontology and Implantology: Adriana Campos Passanezi Sant’ana and Maria Lúcia Rubo de Rezende • Radiology: Ana Lúcia Alvares Capelozza and Izabel Regin...

The purpose of this article was to compare the social representation between dentistry and social sciences students, concerning the process of health and disease, and the conception of health professional position in our society, aiming a contribution to improve dentistry students' social formation. It is a qualitative research and its methodology was based in interviews performed by two resear...

Clinical learning in restorative dentistry is principally centred around the provision of patient care, yet we know very little about the learning processes occurring within the clinical environment. A study of undergraduate dental student clinical practice used a combination of group interview and questionnaire techniques to explore some of the characteristics of student/teacher interaction th...

Objectives The aim of the present study was to assess the preventive orientation of Iraqi dentists in terms of their "knowledge" and "attitude" towards caries prevention and to explore their "preventive practice". Materials and Methods A cross-sectional study based on a self-administered questionnaire was conducted among 159 dentists who worked in Baghdad during the summer of 2016. The questi...

Dr. Formicola is Professor of Dentistry and former Dean of the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia University, a position he held for twenty-three years. He is Vice-Dean of the Center for Community Health Partnerships, Columbia University. Dr. Formicola received his D.D.S. degree from Georgetown University and an M.S. degree in Periodontics. He taught at the schools of dentistry at Georgetow...