Learning statistics is a necessity for dental researchers. Due to daily dental science expansion, dental researchers have to study new papers in recent dental journals to remain up to date. On the other hand, knowing principles of statistics helps better understanding of the articles. Some authors revealed that knowledge of dentists about basic topics of statistics was poor. Therefore, in this ...

Descriptive statistics is the process of summarizing gathered raw data from a research and creating useful statistics, which help the better understanding of data. According to the types of variables, which consist of qualitative and quantitative variables, some descriptive statistics have been introduced. Frequency percentage is used in qualitative data, and mean, median, mode, standard deviat...

1DDS, Master student, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Division, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil 2DDS, MS, PhD, Collaborative Researcher, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Division, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil 3DDS, MS, PhD, Associate professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Division, Piracicaba Dental School, Uni...

1MS, PhD, Post-doctorate researcher, Department of Community Dentistry, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, Brazil 2MSPH, PhD, Professor, Department of Community Dentistry, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, Brazil 3MS, PhD student, Department of Morphology, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, Brazil 4Speech Therapist, Limeira, SP, Br...

BACKGROUND Initiatives taken over the last few years have led us to the day when most of the medical and dental institutions in the developed countries have established a strong research culture at undergraduate level but the situation is quite the contrary in Pakistan. This study was carried out to investigate the current trends in undergraduate medical and dental research and to highlight the...

As a consequence of dental implant treatment being considered effective, safe and predictable they are now a preferred solution for those who have lost teeth due to dental caries, periodontal disease, injuries or other reasons. The biomechanical performance of implants cannot be proven or tested in vivo due to difficulties in assessing or quantifying the level of osseointegration, the stability...