Background: Awareness of dental students’ views from the clinical departments will help on developing strategies for qualitative and quantitative improvement of clinical skills. The purpose of this study was an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the clinical departments of Babol dental school, from students' views point, to provide feedback for improving of clinical skills training. ...

Introduction: Dental students are at high risk for occupational exposure to blood borne pathogens (including HBV, HCV and AIDS) via sharps and needle stick injuries (NSIs). The aim of this study was to evaluate sharps and needle stick injuries among dental students and students' practice regarding protective strategies against blood borne pathogens. Methods: This cross-sectional study was perfo...

Abstract: The aim of the present investigation is to study the physical and mechanical characteristics of dental-filling spherical high-copper and silver amalgams and to compare them with a common high-copper domestic unicompositional amalgam. In this study, cylindrical specimens were mechanically condensed according to the ISO 1559:1986 Standard in order to measure the compressive strength, Vi...

statement of the problem: exposure to patients’ blood and body fluids would prone the dental students to the risk of blood borne infections. several studies have shown a high prevalence of these exposures in dental settings particularly in developing countries. however, few studies have evaluated the epidemiology of these exposures in dental students in iran. purpose: to assess the epidemiology...