Dentistry is a professional field which effective teaching very important and dentistry students differ in their culture, experience, personality learning preferences. In these circumstances, students' preferences should be considered more educators try to improve conditions meet needs. To investigate the of dental about lecture components, exams, attendance, development survey has been sent 19...

Inflammatory diseases share many common traits, including the ability to produce pro-inflammatory messengers called cytokines that travel throughout the body. Cytokines play an important role in physiologic regulation of many biological activities, but in inflammatory diseases, they are produced at levels that can have pathological consequences. In diabetes, cytokines can cause β-cell death and...

Dr. Jones is Associate Professor in the Boston University Schools of Dental Medicine and Public Health, Chair of the Department of General Dentistry, and Convener of the Elders’ Oral Health Summit; Prof. Wehler is Assistant Professor in the Boston University School of Dental Medicine, Department of General Dentistry. Direct correspondence and requests for reprints to Dr. Judith A. Jones, Chairw...

The capacity to locate, access, and appraise information is an important skill required for success in dental school and beyond. An interdisciplinary course was implemented to teach first-year dental students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Dental Branch about evidence-based dentistry, search strategies, critical appraisal of the literature, and dental informatics. S...

Chitosan is a biocompatible material that has been researched in many areas in recent years. As it can be obtained from renewable sources, has antimicrobial properties, is biocompatible, and has no toxic effect, chitosan is currently a widely-used material. The use of chitosan was investigated in different areas related to dentistry. Chitosan is used in the prevention of caries and wear, to inc...

introduction. this study was designed to measure the attitude of the medical students’ of jahrom school of medical sciences in basic and clinical stages and the approach they have to their course of study and future occupation. methods. a questionnaire was handed out in which some items such as sex, final high school scores, term average scores, patient’s education and the assigned students wer...

Associate Professor, Dept. of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. *Assistant Professor, Dept. of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Undergraduate student, Research Committee, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran...