The goal of this study was to identify the factors and program characteristics that influenced the program ranking decisions of applicants to pediatric dentistry residency programs. A questionnaire was sent to the first-year resident class in 2005 with a response rate of 69.2 percent (n=260). Approximately 55 percent were female (104/180) and 61 percent were non-His-panic white (110/180). The r...

Broken appointments continue to be an important productivity, quality assurance, and access gauge for private dental practices and academic dental centers. In November 2001, the University of Rochester Eastman Dental Center, an urban academic dental center, installed an automated confirmation system to address a high incidence of broken appointments. Following the installation of the system, th...

www.medigraphic.org.mx * Full time professor at the School of Dentistry, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico, Graduate degree in Research and Imaging. § General Physician, Graduate, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico. II Full time instructor and coordinator of Restorative Dentistry Specialty School of Dentistry of the Autonomous University of Yucatan, DDS, Special...

Dr. Waldman is Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of General Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University; Dr. Perlman is Global Clinical Director, Special Olympics, Special Smiles, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatric Dentistry, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and in private practice in Lynn, MA; and Dr. Xu is Clinical Assistant Professor, De...