In dental education, various clinical delivery models are used to educate dental students. The quantitative and qualitative measures used to assess the outcomes of these models are varied. Georgia Health Sciences University College of Dental Medicine has adopted a version of a general dentistry comprehensive care dental education hybrid model. Outcome assessments were developed to evaluate the ...

In the light of the scarcity of epidemiological studies on the oral health of the general population within the context of the Amazon region, this study aimed to estimate the prevalence of dental caries and gingivitis, as well as to evaluate the need for restorative treatment, among school students aged 15 to 19 years in the city of Manaus, AM, Brazil. A cross-sectional study was carried out on...

INTRODUCTION Dental caries is a common condition amongst young children that negatively impacts on their quality of life, It is an added burden on children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) who have an increased risk of developing caries due to the high sugar contents in their medications, regular consumption of cariogenic foods and a poor salivary flow. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES to analyse the...

Dental caries is one of the oldest and most common diseases found in humans. With the recent shift from the surgical model, which emphasized restorative treatment, to a medical model of disease management, newer strategies emphasize disease prevention and conservation of tooth structure. For early detection and monitoring of caries, rather than waiting until a cavity is formed and restorative t...

Osteopenia and osteoporosis induce the reduction of bone mass in human jaws [1-13]. Reduced blood flow to mandibular compact bone layers and systemic osteoporosis could result in significant reduction of residual ridges [14]. From the standpoint of treatment planning and restorative procedures in the rehabilitation of toothless and edentulous osteoporotic patients, atrophic residual alveolar ri...

Many new technologies with potential application to dentistry are on the horizon, including tissue engineering, gene and growth factor therapy, although there are a number of problems to overcome1 before these might be introduced clinically. However, the dentine-pulp complex has strong natural regenerative capacity and exploitation of these biological repair processes can allow current approach...

In restorative treatment using fixed dental prostheses, dentists should select appropriate restoration material among various types of dental materials. The strength, marginal fit, esthetics, wear resistance, biocompatibility, and cost are important factors in the choice of restoration materials. The present case showed a surface stain on a monolithic zirconia restoration that was due to wear b...

An equation was developed from studies of single-pass wear and fracture toughness of filled and unfilled dental restorative resins and dental amalgams relating the sliding frictional force F to the normal load N, fracture toughness, modulus of elasticity, yield strength and slider diameter. This equation was of the same form as that reported for viscoelastic materials (F = KW). Friction was cau...

Nádia Lunardi; Gustavo Hauber Gameiro; Maria Beatriz Borges de Araújo Magnani; Darcy Flávio Nouer; Vânia Célia Vieira de Siqueira; Simonides Consani; João Sarmento Pereira-Neto DDS, MS, Private Practice DDS, MS, PhD student, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics Division DDS, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics Division DDS, MS, PhD, Professor...

Based on studies in two dental schools (N = 42 and 22), the hypotheses suggest that the utilization of personality, vision and anthropometric measures as supplemental indices to the currently utilized measures will result in higher concurrent validity than was previously possible (377 versus 48%) . Statement of the Problem Annually over 15,000 students apply for admission to dental schools in t...