OBJECTIVE To describe and compare the levels of stress reported by dental practitioners working within clinical dental specialties. METHOD Questionnaire survey of 220 dental practitioners identified from the General Dental Council lists of specialist practitioners in the following clinical specialties: orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, restorative dentistry, endodontics, periodontology, pro...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study presented here was to evaluate the reliability of an OSPE end-of-semester exam in the phantom course for operative dentistry in Frankfurt am Main taking into consideration different modes of evaluation (examiner's checklist versus instructor's manual) and number of examiners (three versus four). METHODS In an historic, monocentric, comparative study, two diff...

1DDS, MSc, Graduate student, Department of Prosthodontics, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil. 2DDS, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil. 3DDS, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, Endodontics and Dental Materials, Bauru School of Dentist...

1Unit of Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry, Section of Dentistry, Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 2Facultad de Odontologı́a, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, MEX, Mexico 3Orthodontic Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt 4Institute of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, Univ...

Eun-Jung Shin, Yeong-Joon Park, Bin-Na Lee, Ji-Hyun Jang, Hoon-Sang Chang, In-Nam Hwang, Won-Mann Oh, Yun-Chan Hwang* Chonnam National University School of dentistry, Department of Dental Materials, Chonnam National University School of Dentistry and Dental Science Research Institute, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Chonnam National University School of Dentistry and Dental Science Resear...

1Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Ege University, 35100 Izmir, Turkey 2Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Gazi University, 06500 Ankara, Turkey 3Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Çukurova University, 01330 Adana, Turkey 4Department of Restorative Dentistry, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, 13414-093 Piracicaba, SP, Brazil 5M...

Minimal intervention dentistry for managing dental caries – a review Report of a FDI task group* Jo E. Frencken, Mathilde C. Peters, David J. Manton, Soraya C. Leal, Valeria V. Gordan and Ece Eden Department of Global Oral Health, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics, School of Dentistry, University...

OBJECTIVE To define the role and education of the traditional pharmacist who supports the needs of the veterinarian (hereafter referred to as veterinary pharmacist) and a pharmacist who practices solely in veterinary pharmacy (here after referred to as veterinary pharmacy specialist). METHODS The Delphi technique involving 7 panels of 143 experts was employed to reach consensus on the definit...

To mark its 90th anniversary, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, published a book Collection of Veterinary Instruments from the Museum of Veterinary History, which is a significant contribution to the history of veterinary medicine of Croatia. The presented collection is on display in the Museum of Veterinary History at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The Museum, an i...