A desired outcome of dental and dental hygiene programs is the development of students' self-assessment skills. To that end, the Commission on Dental Accreditation states that "graduates must demonstrate the ability to self-assess." However, it is unclear that merely providing opportunity for self-assessment actually leads to the desired outcome. The aim of this study was to systematically revi...

The anticipated shortage of dental faculty presents a challenge for dental education as it will greatly impact the training of the next generation of practicing dentists. One way to alleviate shortages is to identify students who are interested in an academic career at the predoctoral level and provide them with training in teaching, research, and leadership. Based on available evidence, formal...

The need for inclusion of comprehensive tobacco control education/training for health care providers continues to be stressed in publications addressing cessation services. The dental appointment presents an excellent opportunity to provide tobacco interventions to basically healthy people on regular intervals. The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to assess the need (stage of change and co...

This report summarizes the history and curriculum of the American Dental Education Association/Academy for Academic Leadership Institute for Teaching and Learning (ADEA/AAL ITL) Program for Dental School Faculty, describes participant feedback, and reviews how the program serves the faculty development initiatives of the American Dental Education Association. The fifty-hour program (6.5 days), ...

The aims of this study were to develop, implement, and evaluate a novel interprofessional standardized patient exercise (ISPE) with oral-systemic and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) components. Dental students and doctor of nursing practice (DNP) students at one U.S. university participated in the simulation, which was primarily designed to test their teamwork skills. In spring ...

Remakes, or the refabrication of dental prostheses, can occur as a result of inherent inaccuracies in both clinical and laboratory procedures. Because dental schools manage large numbers of predoctoral dental students with limited familiarity and expertise as related to clinical prosthodontic techniques, it is likely these schools will experience an elevated incidence of laboratory remakes and ...

Authors’ affiliations: Jens C. Türp, Clinic for Reconstructive Dentistry and Temporomandibular Disorders, Dental School, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Asbjørn Jokstad, Department of Prosthodontics, University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry, Toronto, Canada Edith Motschall, Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany Hans J. Schindler...

CORINA MARCAUTEANU1, ENIKÖ TÜNDE STOICA1, CRISTINA BORTUN 2, MEDA-LAVINIA NEGRUTIU3, COSMIN SINESCU3*, ANCA TUDOR4 1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeo” Timiooara, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Occlusion, 9 Revolutiei Blv., 300070, Timiooara, Romania 2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeo”, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Dental Technology, Timiooara, 9 Rev...

CATALINA IULIA SAVEANU1*, OANA DRAGOS2, VLAD DANILA3, CORINA CHEPTEA4 1 Grigore T. PopaUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Preventive Dentistry Department, 16, Universitatii Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 2National Institute of Research-Development for Technical Physics – IFT Iasi 3 Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Dento ...

440 Associate Professor, Professor, Orthodontic Research Center and Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Dentist in Private Practice, Shiraz, Iran. d Scientific Faculty Member and Lecturer, Department of Dental Morphology, Dental Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Corresponding author: Vahid Rakhshan. No 17, Siami All...