The American Board of Dental Public Health (ABDPH) currently recognizes 10 core competencies, which identify the skills, knowledge and understanding expected of all dental public health specialists. The last update to the competencies was 1998. The American Board of Dental Public Health, along with the American Association of Public Health Dentistry and its many partners, initiated a process to...

The restoration of the endodontically treated tooth represents a key factor during treatment planning because of its impact on the longterm prognosis. Here we provide an analysis of clinical studies evaluating outcomes of various restorative treatments applied to endodontically treated teeth.

Effective leaders are needed to move the dental profession forward, building on past accomplishments, meeting new challenges, and leading innovation and change. There is a lack of research findings regarding students' perceptions of the importance of leadership abilities and/or their interest in developing leadership skills during their dental school experience. The purpose of this study was to...

and Pediatric Dentistry, State University of Londrina (UEL), Brazil 2DDS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Pediatric Dentistry, State University of Londrina (UEL), Brazil 3DDS, MS, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatric and Social Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil 4DDS, MS, PhD, Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Pediatric Dentistry, State U...

1Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Sree Sai Dental College and Research Institute, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India; 2Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, A J Shetty Dental College Mangalore, Karnataka, India; 3Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Maitri College of Dentistry & Research Centre, Anjora, Chhattisgarh, I...

The Brazilian National System of Graduate Studies currently has 2,748 Courses/Programs distributed in nine major areas: Agricultural Sciences, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Earth and Exact Sciences, Humanities, Applied Social Sciences, Engineering, Linguistics, Arts and Letters, and Interdisciplinary Sciences. The major area of Health has the greatest number of Courses/Programs (n = 452...

This article discusses some of the misconceptions of evidence-based research in the health sciences. It proposes that since not all treatments in medicine and dentistry can be evidence-based, clinical applications of the evidence-based process should become a specialty. The case is particularly evident in dentistry. Therefore dentistry is taken in this article as a model for discussion. We prop...

Aims: The present study was carried out to evaluate the relationship between the grades of pre-clinical and clinical courses of endodontics, fixed prosthodontics and restorative dentistry achieved by dental students entering Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Materials and methods: The subjects in this retrospective cross-sectional study consisted of dental students entering Ta...