background: dental students have reported a high prevalence of psychological stress and the causes are associated with the challenging dental environmental and demographic factors. this study aimed to conduct a preliminary investigation on dental students’ stress status, using a sample of first-to-third-year bachelor of dental surgery students in an australian university. special interests incl...

Background. Dental students have reported a high prevalence of psychological stress and the causes are associated with the challenging dental environmental and demographic factors. This study aimed to conduct a preliminary investigation on dental students' stress status, using a sample of first-to-third-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery students in an Australian university. Special interests incl...

background: evaluating the factors influence student perception, might allow programmatic changes designed to enhance students’ psychosocial well-being and academic performance. the purpose of this study was to investigate perceived sources of stress on dental students and the role of parents in their career choice decisions. methods: in a cross-sectional design , a modified dental environmenta...

background: it has been prover that the prevalence of experiencing job related stress is very high among the dentists. this stress can be the result of factors such as poor lightening of dental office and noise. this stress can cause emotional distress and threaten dentists’ physical health and affect the quality of their life. this study is conducted to determine dentists’ professional quality...

Development is a complex phenomenon where the forming phenotype interacts with genetic and environmental inputs. Teeth are an important model for developmental studies and their development has been thoroughly investigated. However, despite of an extensive literature on the genetics of dental development, no studies have yet focused on the environmental influences on dental morphology. Here we ...

  Background: It has been prover that the prevalence of experiencing job related stress is very high among the dentists. This stress can be the result of factors such as poor lightening of dental office and noise. This stress can cause emotional distress and threaten dentists’ physical health and affect the quality of their life. This study is conducted to determine dentists’ p...

Dental students are exposed to different stress factors in different stages of dental education which, apart from affecting their physical and mental health also has an impact on academic performance. The present research attempts to identify the perceived sources of stress and coping strategies amongst dental students and interns. Questionnaire consisting demographic data, Modified Dental Envi...

A study was conducted involving a group of 290 medical and dental students to directly compare perceived stress levels encountered during their education. A modified questionnaire based on Garbee et al.'s Dental Environmental Stress survey was provided to the students by either email or paper. The purpose of the investigation was to determine if the sources of stress reported by medical and den...

Streptococcus mutans has been implicated as a primary causative agent of dental caries in humans. An important virulence property of the bacterium is its ability to form biofilm known as dental plaque on tooth surfaces. In addition, this organism also produces glucosyltransferases, multiple glucan-binding proteins, protein antigen c, and collagen-binding protein, surface proteins that coordinat...