The scope was to analyze the perceptions of dentistry students at the State University of Montes Claros, Brazil, regarding dentistry, the job market and the public healthcare system. For this, a triangulation method was employed, using a self-administered questionnaire and interviews. The quantitative data were submitted to univariate and multivariate analysis, using Poisson regression, where p...

As a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson's Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education grant, the Extramural Education Program (EEP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry was charged with developing partnerships with community-based oral health programs throughout Illinois. These programs are to be used for clinical service-learning rotations fo...

From the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surges-, College of Dentistry, and the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois . This investigation was supported in part by a research grant_ from the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, and by a grant from the Graduate College Research Board of the U...

C. J. Gibson1; B.E. Dixon2,3,4; K. Abrams5 1Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, CANADA; 2Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA; 3Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA; 4Center for Health Information and Communication, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Hea...

In this commentary, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the following incentive-based remuneration systems in dentistry: fee-for-service remuneration, per capita remuneration, a mixed payment system (a combination of fee-for-service remuneration and per capita remuneration) and pay-for-performance. The two latter schemes are fairly new in dentistry. Fee-for-service payments secure hi...

This study explores how dentists explain the concept of social responsibility and its relationship to issues affecting access to oral health care by vulnerable segments of the population. Analysis of open-ended interviews with thirty-four dentists, including dental educators, and administrators and officials of dental public health programs in Canada and the United States revealed that four mai...

It is one of controversial issues in health economics whether the severer competition among physicians causes the higher medical fee because of the physician-induced demand or it causes decline of the fee because of the competition. We focus on the dental service market in Japan and examine the relation between the dentist-to-population ratio and dentistry fee using the fixed-effects model incl...

Since the founding of dental schools as institutions distinct from medical schools, dentistry-its practice, service delivery, and insurance coverage, for example-and dental care have been kept separate from medical care in the United States. This separation is most detrimental to undeserved groups at highest risk for poor oral health. As awareness grows of the important links between oral and g...