Dental education has undergone significant curriculum reform in response to the 1995 Institute of Medicine report Dental Education at the Crossroads and the series of white papers from the American Dental Education Association Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (ADEA CCI) first published in the Journal of Dental Education and subsequently collected in a volume titled Beyond...

It was the purpose of this study to evaluate dental age in boys with delayed puberty and to compare them with a group of normal, healthy boys. The study group consisted of eight boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP), older than 14 years, and with a testis volume smaller than 4 ml. The control group comprised 38 normal, healthy boys, aged between 12.4 and 14.3 years. Dental...

Introduction A current debate in palaeoanthropology centres on the issue of modern human origins, particularly the question of when ‘anatomically modern humans’ (AMH) from the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) became fully modern. Fossil Homo in Africa appears to have undergone a morphological transition from a more primitive form (i.e. Homo heidelbergensis/Homo rhodesiensis) to a more modern form...

PURPOSE Progress in the dental hygiene discipline is predicated on the development of a community of scholars with a dental hygiene scholarly identity who explore questions central to the art and science of dental hygiene and in doing so create conceptual models to expand the discipline's structural hierarchy of knowledge. Graduate dental hygiene education is challenged to develop programs that...

Accurate diagnosis and treatment of the dental diseases is very important component of patient’s dental care and also important for the development of high quality dentistry. Among various methods used for diagnosis of dental diseases, oral pathological evaluation plays a vital role. The ability of a pathologist to accurately interpret a lesion largely depends on biopsy performed by the dental ...

PURPOSE Dental hygienists have often been described as the registered nurses of the dental field. Similar parallels also exist between the development of the nurse practitioner from the nursing profession and the evolution of the dental hygiene practice and profession. This article explores 3 major similarities between the professions of nurse practitioner and dental hygienist. Public health is...

Common environmental chemicals, drugs, or physical agents can adversely affect human teeth during their embryonic development and after their eruption into the oral cavity. One of the more common elemental toxicants is lead. Teeth are known to accumulate lead during their development. Both animal and human studies have shown that teeth with high lead levels are generally more susceptible to den...

Recent developments, including national reports and new accreditation standards, have emphasized the need for dental students to be prepared to address the needs of a diverse patient population. The purpose of this study was to explore students' descriptions of and reflections on their day-to-day interactions with a diverse patient population in the clinical setting, using a qualitative approac...

In human dentition characteristics, complex processes intervene that have a close relationship with the growth and development of the whole craniofacial complex mainly in bones such as the maxilla and the mandible. Dental morphology is determined by environmental and genetic factors which are in a dynamic relationship that may cause single, partial or complete anomalies in dental development. D...

Disintegrin and metalloprotease (ADAM) proteins are a family of membrane-anchored glycoproteins with diverse functions in fertilisation, development, neurogenesis and protein ectodomain shedding. ADAM28 is a newly discovered member of the ADAM family in humans and murine with autocatalytic activity. Recently, the authors screened ADAM28 genes from patients with congenital hypoplasia of tooth ro...