This article examines the history, current status, and future direction of community-based dental education (CBDE). The key issues addressed include the reasons that dentistry developed a different clinical education model than the other health professions; how government programs, private medical foundations, and early adopter schools influenced the development of CBDE; the societal and financ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 2 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 3 Center of Human Development and Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ. 4 Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University ...

Learners gain additional value from community-based education when they are guided through a reflective process. The purpose of this article is to describe how structured reflection assignments and methods are incorporated in the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry's community-based DISC (Dentistry in Service to Communities) program. The following strategies are described as ways t...

* Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Akdeniz University, 07058/Antalya,Turkey E-mail: [email protected] ** Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey *** Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, İzmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey **** Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Atatürk ...

Background: Above all methods effective learning results from decent training, acquired in the proper environment and encouraging creative methods. Computer-assisted training by educational software is considered a fundamental measure to improve medical and dentistry education systems. This study aims to design and assess fixed dental prostheses via 2 multimedia instructional contents at the Gu...

Determining the prevalence of dental caries is a necessary step for health care planners to identify resources needed for dental services in the community and to provide preventive and curative services to combat dental health problems. Field surveys of cross-sectional design are important tools to describe the status of dental problems in the community.1-3 The visuotactile method has been wide...

In a 25-year-old satellite dental program, advanced dentistry and dental hygiene students provide highly supervised dental treatment for patients in government-funded clinics in 3 under-serviced communities in northern Alberta. Analysis of the performance data of the 2003 University of Alberta dentistry students in their fourth and final year was used to evaluate this program. The data showed t...

BACKGROUND: The name of Iosif Solomonovich Rubinov, a prominent Russian dentist and the founder physiological direction in dentistry, is little known today to dental community Russia, neighboring countries beyond, although scientific legacy Professor I.S. Rubinov valuable contribution development medical science all sections dentistry.
 AIM: To highlight scientific, clinical, pedagogical, ...

A considerable number of Hispanic agricultural workers come to Northwest Michigan during the summer every year to harvest fruit and vegetable crops. The Department of Community Dentistry of The University of Michigan School of Dentistry helps provide dental services for these migrant workers and their families. Some 203 five-to-14-year-old children of migrant farm workers were examined for cari...

Public Health Dentistry is a speciality which is targeted towards the larger benefit of community and society. Dental health surveys in specific population groups should be planned adequately and the data should be analyzed in such a way so that it may help in making strategies for the intervention to improve the existing status. This could be only done with the help of proper planning, analysi...