Mihaela HEDESIU, MDa; Andrea SERBANESCU, MDb; Cornelia CIOLAN, MDc; Ioana NICULAE, MDb; Floarea FILDAN, MD, PhDd; Maier MARIUSe aAssistant lecturer of Dental Radiology Department, “Iuliu Hatieganu” UMPh, Cluj-Napoca, Romania bPhD student of Dental Radiology Department, “Iuliu Hatieganu” UMPh, Cluj-Napoca, Romania cDental physician of Dental Surgery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania dProfessor of Dental Rad...

Dr. Carole A. Anderson, vice provost and interim dean, The Ohio State University College of Dentistry, agreed that dental school-based clinics are not patient-centered and that they should be. Based on her experience as a high-level administrator in health sciences education and former nursing school dean, she described her surprise at discovering during her early days as interim dental school ...

BACKGROUND The authors conducted a study aimed to assess the awareness and attitude among dental students and residents at King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Dentistry (KAUFD) toward using dental magnification. METHODS An e-questionnaire was formulated then sent to dental students and residents (n = 651). The questionnaire included questions that assessed both the awareness and attitude to...

The purpose of this study was to explore dental and dental hygiene students' and faculty members' personal experiences with Medicaid prior to coming to dental school as well as their professional/educational experiences with patients on Medicaid during their dental/dental hygiene education and how these experiences relate to their professional attitudes and behavior concerning treating patients...

As more students from various health professions are combined into integrated courses, evaluating the teaching quality of individual faculty in these typically large, multi-instructor contexts becomes increasingly difficult. Indeed, students who lack sufficient recall of a given faculty member or are not committed to the evaluation process may respond by marking identical responses to all evalu...

Haptic technology (sense of touch) along with 3D-virtual reality (VR) graphics, creating lifelike training simulations, was used to develop a dental training simulator system (PerioSim). This preliminary study was designed to evaluate whether faculty considered PerioSim realistic and useful for training and evaluating basic procedural skills of students. The haptic device employed was a PHANToM...

Consistency in clinical decision making may be necessary for reliable assessment of student performance and teaching effectiveness, yet little has been done to examine variation in periodontal diagnosis and treatment planning among dental school faculty. The purpose of this investigation was to examine variation among faculty in diagnosis and management of common periodontal diseases. Twenty-se...

1DDS, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, Dental School, Federal University of Bahia, BA, Brazil. 2DDS, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, Dental School, Federal University of Pará, PA, Brazil. 3BDS, PhD, FADM, Associate Professor, Discipline of Restorative Dentistry, Department of Clinical Dental Sciences. Faculty of Dentistry, Unive...

Dental students are future leaders of health care and the dental profession. The purpose of this study was to assess the interest in leadership development programs at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry and compare the results with similar studies. In April 2010, two surveys were administered. Of the 462 students enrolled, 58 percent completed the survey. Of the ...