BACKGROUNDS Infection control is one of the primary responsibilities of dental health care personnel. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the infection control practices of Iranian dentists and dental nurses working in governmental dental health care centers were influenced by their educational level and years of practice. METHODS This cross-sectional analytical study was comple...

The Journal Development Committee of Head & Face Medicine has decided to create the new section “Biomaterials for dental and craniomaxillofacial applications”. As editors of Head & Face Medicine we are glad that Dr. Jörg Neunzehn, scientist and group leader at the Chair for Biomaterials of the Technische Universität Dresden, accepted this new editorial board position and that he will offer his ...

1DDS, MSc, PhD, Postdoctoral Student, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil 2DDS, MSc, PhD student, Piracicaba Dental School, UNICAMP – University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil 3MSc, PhD student in Pathology, Department of General Pathology, Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil 4MSc, PhD, Researcher, Department of Applied Imm...

A variety of dental caries patterns encompassing differing teeth have been proposed, and their use may have utility in Early Childhood Caries (ECC) investigations by minimizing case misclassification. Recent reports have proposed multiple pattern schemes. The purpose of this paper was to review the historical evolution of ECC patterns to assist the clinician and researcher in understanding the ...

In TMD study a diastema appears to be developing between clinicians who are involved in patient treatment and researchers involved in dental research. The dentist is either the artful clinical practitioner or the scientific experimental researcher. Certainly a person can do both but the subtle intellectual division is a belief that one does not do both simultaneously. Arguments such as whether ...

3 ilver-mercury fillings—also called dental or mercury amalgams— ave been used in dentistry since 1832. In 1840, the dental ssociation of the day argued over whether to use mercury as filling material because it was cheap, or to withdraw it ecause it was toxic. The safety debate had already begun and ould be called “Amalgam War I.” In the late 1920s, Dr Alfred tock, a biochemist and researcher,...

THE advent of cavity-shaping technics, which utilize high rotational speeds and a light hand pressure to remove a large amount of tooth material, has resulted in an acute awareness by dental operators that certain burs are superior to others. This situation has caused an obvious desire by the dentist, the dental researcher and the manufacturer for knowledge which will explain these differences ...

This study examines a method of generating comprehensive profiling information for a researcher analysis service. In addition to basic and performance-based information about researchers necessary to generate profiling information, we introduce researcher performance index models for researcher analysis service. The models can that measure qualitative and quantitative performance, researcher in...