In the United Kingdom the National Health Service only provides dental implant treatment to patients who fulfil stringent clinical criteria outlined by the Royal College of Surgeons. Such treatment is normally in a hospital setting. The majority of dental implant work is otherwise carried out in the private sector. Concern about the quality of implant dentistry and training led the General Dent...

Data from the 2010 Learners' Perceptions Survey (LPS) administered through the Office of Academic Affiliations, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were analyzed to identify factors associated with dental residents' satisfaction with the VA as a clinical training environment. Satisfaction scores were linked to clinic workloads, dental procedure complexity levels, staffing patterns, and facility...

Tobacco is a significant risk factor for oral diseases. Dental care providers have the opportunity to inform patients about the risks associated with tobacco use and refer them to tobacco cessation resources. Although dental teams usually ask their patients about their tobacco use, most do not provide tobacco cessation counseling. This project involved four staff-model dental clinics and four c...

introduction: oral diseases are the most prevalent diseases probable at any age. they are chronic in nature and expensive to care.  accurate, comprehensive, well-structured, well-managed data is required to control and prevent oral diseases, clinical audit, quality of patient care, and administrative, financial, research and legal goals fulfillment we need. in dentistry, data collection would p...

Dental procedures are very traumatic in children, due to the fact of trauma and pain that they afraid of, children normally suffer during visits dentist, this work power eliminate these fears through virtual reality is evaluated, Immersing a setting comfortable for them, measurement brain activity accompanied by study concentration child has, at time dental procedure, which subjected visual exp...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify national dental education research (DER) priorities for the next 3-5 years and to identify barriers and enablers to DER. SETTING Scotland. PARTICIPANTS In this two-stage online questionnaire study, we collected data with multiple dental professions (eg, dentistry, dental nursing and dental hygiene) and stakeholder groups (eg, learners, clinicians, edu...

Dentists can play an important role in helping patients quit using tobacco. The aim of this study was to investigate incoming dental students' attitudes toward tobacco cessation promotion in the dental setting. Such attitudes can impact students' receptivity to training and subsequent involvement in tobacco cessation promotion. A twenty-six-item written survey was administered to freshman stude...