Hima John1, S Padmashree2, Rema Jayalekshmy3 1Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Vydehi Institute of Dental Science and Research Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 2Professor & Head, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Vydehi Institute of Dental Science and Research Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 3Professor, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Vyde...

R Thanuja1, Puneet Ahuja2, Moulshree Kohli3, Jahnobi Dutta3, Amit Gupta4 1Reader, Department of Oral Pathology, ITS Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2Principal, Professor and Head, Department of Oral Pathology, ITS Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 3Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral Patholo...

Student performance was compared on written and psychomotor skill tests of freshman dental students receiving conventional lectures versus the same lectures containing interactive components using TurningPoint, a wireless audience response system (ARS). The research design was a controlled crossover study with seventy-seven freshman dental students conducted in a preclinical operative dentistry...

This pilot study compared second- and fourth-year dental students' perceived values of newly implemented clinical leadership experiences (CLEs) at one U.S. dental school during the 2012-13 academic year. In the CLEs, fourth-year (D4) students mentored second-year (D2) dental students during faculty-supervised patient treatment. The two cohorts' perceived value of the experiences was measured wi...

The improvement of basic cultural competency skills and the creation of a greater community-minded spirit among dental students are important parts of dental education. The purpose of our study was to assess changes in dental students' attitudes and beliefs about community service and changes in cultural competencies after participation in a two-year program of non-dental community service (Stu...

1PhD Professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry, São José dos Campos Dental School, UNESP, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil. 2Chairman Professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Araraquara Dental School, UNESP, Araraquara, SP, Brazil. 3Chairman Professor, Department of Pathology, Bauru Dental School, University of São Paulo, USP, Bauru, SP, Brazil. 4Graduate student of Restorative Denti...

1DDS, MSc, PhD, Department of Diagnosis and Surgery, Araraquara Dental School, UNESP – Univ. Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, SP, Brazil. 2DDS, Private Practice, Araraquara, SP, Brazil. 3DDS, MSc student, Department of Diagnosis and Surgery, Araraquara Dental School, UNESP Univ. Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, SP, Brazil. 4DDS, MSc, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Morphology, Araraquara Dent...

Peeyush Shivhare1, Lata Shankarnarayan2, Sowbhagya Malligere Basavaraju3, Monu Yadav4, Ankur Singh1 1Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Narsinhbhai Patel Dental College & Hospital, Visnagar, Gujarat, India, 2Professor, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Rama dental College, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, 3Reader, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Rajarajeshwar...

Piyush Sukhija1, Geetha Kamath2, Medha Babshet3, H S Srikanth4, Atul Anand Bajoria1 1Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Hasanamba Dental College and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Hasanamba Dental College and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India, 3Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Med...

Journal of Dental Education ■ Volume 67, Number 6 This article is the first in this new section, which consists of submissions authored solely by undergraduate dental and allied dental students. Articles in this section may cover the entire spectrum of academic dentistry from clinical and educational research to student perceptions of educational methodologies and critical issues in dental educ...