BACKGROUND Dental students receive theoretical and clinical training in pediatric behavioral guidance techniques at university. Therefore, the content of the educational course and the degree of training in behavioral techniques may have an impact on the students' perceptions and practice of such techniques. The purpose of this study was to evaluate Saudi dental students' perceptions of behavio...

Colour is a source of attentional guidance and object segmentation when viewing a scene. In an eye-tracking study, we examined its role during search of targets placed in consistent or inconsistent locations within realistic scene contexts. Both the target template and the whole scene were presented in full colour or grayscale. Colour presence did not influence early search, considering latency...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a dental education component on dental students' perceptions toward behavior guidance techniques in pediatric dentistry. A questionnaire was completed by seventy-three first-year dental students, before and after a course on human development and behavior guidance techniques in pediatric dentistry. The acceptability of behavior guidance te...