Evidence Based Practice - Need of an Hour

Dentistry as a profession has developed a store of specialized knowledge that serve as a basis of professional decision making. The world in which we learn and practice dentistry is changing at an astonishing rate. Our desire to keep upto date is often tinged with dilemma whether something new is better than our current strategy. Now the practice of dentistry is becoming more complex and challenging because of the continually changing in dental materials and equipments, an increasing litigious society, an increase in emphasis of continuing professional development , In keeping abreast with advances in dentistry, we are inundated with information about new techniques, tests, procedures, materials and products. Two phenomena information explosion and consumer movement, both of which are fortified by the extraordinary advancement of the internet, are coming together to change the way all businesses including health care will function in the future. The need for reliable information and the electronic revolution have come together to allow the “paradigm shift” towards evidence-based health care. Recent years have seen an increase in the importance of evidence-based dentistry, aiming to reduce to the maximum the gap between clinical research and real world dental practice. Aim of evidence-based practice is the systematic literature review, which synthesizes the best evidences and provides the basis for clinical practice guidelines. These practice guidelines give a brief review of what evidence-based dentistry is and how to use it.