BACKGROUND Information on the HIV and AIDS-related knowledge among dental students provides a crucial foundation for efforts aimed at developing an appropriate dental curriculum on HIV and AIDS, and for attracting the attention of dental school educators towards the subject. PURPOSES Focusing on a census of dental students attending their 3rd, 4th and 5th study year at publicly - and privatel...

New developments in dentistry are appearing rapidly, and new electronic means for making information available are already in the hands of our dental students. Recognizing a dramatic shift in the landscape, the American Dental Education Association developed, in 2004, the Commission on Change and Innovation. The commission has coordinated a national effort to identify a new dental education cur...

dear editorevidence-based dentistry (ebd) is anapproach to oral health care which helps to decision making in clinicalpractice. ebd is an integration of systematic assessments of clinically relevantscientific evidence, relating to the patient's oral and medical condition andhistory (1). it is a new model for dental educationwhich is designed to increase current research into student education a...

It is not known whether the integration of photo-stimulable phosphor (PSP) plates into dental and dental hygiene curricula creates unique learning challenges for students. The purpose of this two-year study was to determine if dental hygiene students had more and/or different types of errors when using PSP plates compared to film and whether the PSP imaging plates had any particular characteris...

The aim of this research was to investigate the quality of written prosthetic prescriptions provided by fourth-year dental students to a commercially operated dental laboratory and to ascertain the contribution of interprofessional education to improving prescription quality. Based on guidelines established by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency of the European Union (Medica...

This pilot study compared second- and fourth-year dental students' perceived values of newly implemented clinical leadership experiences (CLEs) at one U.S. dental school during the 2012-13 academic year. In the CLEs, fourth-year (D4) students mentored second-year (D2) dental students during faculty-supervised patient treatment. The two cohorts' perceived value of the experiences was measured wi...

Extramural clinical rotations are an integral part of many dental school curricula. Schools in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/The California Endowment Pipeline, Profession, and Practice program are increasing student extramural opportunities to expose students to patients of different needs, cultures, and dental delivery modes. Using data from the American Dental Education Association (ADEA...

A panel of academicians was formed to develop an educational plan for dental therapists. The panel met over a 14-month period of time (2010-2011). The panel interviewed leadership from dental therapy educational programs in New Zealand, Canada, Alaska, and the University of Minnesota. The panel was structured into three subcommittees--principles, competencies, and curriculum to develop an educa...

Regular heavy alcohol use can cause or worsen several oral health disorders and is associated with complications during and after dental procedures. Dental student education should provide detailed knowledge of these issues together with skills needed to detect and counsel patients with unhealthy drinking patterns. This project was designed to develop and evaluate a five-module, online program ...