Preventive Analgesia: An Evidence-Based Alternative for Dentistry

An overview of evidence-based dentistry research.

If the charge of EBD is to help dentists understand the rationale for the things they do and why they do them [2], then EBD “research data” must include cost analysis input from practicing dentists. I am a practicing dentist and the motivation to write this paper is to discuss information that will affect EBD relative to the cost(s) of service(s). Unlike medical care, and I will talk about this...

Evidence-based dentistry: prognosis.

Preventive Dentistry in Mongolia

Tseveenjav Battsetseg. Preventive dentistry in Mongolia. Department of Oral Public Health, Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2004. 83 pp. ISBN 952-91-7349-0 The current study investigated preventive dentistry in Mongolia by assessing future and practicing dentists’ professional preventive practice and knowledge and the oral health outcomes dental professionals achieved fo...

Nanomaterials in preventive dentistry.

The prevention of tooth decay and the treatment of lesions and cavities are ongoing challenges in dentistry. In recent years, biomimetic approaches have been used to develop nanomaterials for inclusion in a variety of oral health-care products. Examples include liquids and pastes that contain nano-apatites for biofilm management at the tooth surface, and products that contain nanomaterials for ...

An Evidence-based Guideline for prehospital analgesia in trauma.

BACKGROUND The management of acute traumatic pain is a crucial component of prehospital care and yet the assessment and administration of analgesia is highly variable, frequently suboptimal, and often determined by consensus-based regional protocols. OBJECTIVE To develop an evidence-based guideline (EBG) for the clinical management of acute traumatic pain in adults and children by advanced li...