OBJECTIVES To probe dental students' perceptions on their cultural competency and international student exchange programs as a way of improving cultural competency training. METHODS A cross-sectional survey (n=460) was distributed to predoctoral students at the College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in May 2014 at the male and female university campuses. D...

Contemporary dental simulation systems were developed to improve dental students' transition from the preclinical laboratory to the clinic. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of a virtual reality computer-assisted simulation system (VR) with a contemporary non-computer-assisted simulation system (CS). The objectives were to determine whether there were differences between the...

Calling for a re-evaluation of the data required to credibly demonstrate a dental student is safe and ready to practice

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of personality measures to predict the success of dental students (N = 87) in clinical and academic courses and to compare their personality profiles to those of dental practitioners (N = 130). A second purpose of the study was to develop a new criterion measure, the Student Professionalism Scale, based on competencies previously identified as ne...

BACKGROUND Individuals, generally, in this environment are known to rate their oral health status favourably despite the presence of oral diseases and conditions, probably due to sub optimal awareness level about oral health, however it is not known if this is the case with members of the dental team especially those who assist the dentist in day to day procedures. OBJECTIVE This study assess...

Recent developments, including national reports and new accreditation standards, have emphasized the need for dental students to be prepared to address the needs of a diverse patient population. The purpose of this study was to explore students' descriptions of and reflections on their day-to-day interactions with a diverse patient population in the clinical setting, using a qualitative approac...

Using the information from remake request slips in a dental school's predoctoral clinic, we examined the short-term survival of Class II resin composite restorations versus Class II dental amalgam restorations. In the student clinic, resin composite is used in approximately 58 percent of Class II restorations placed, and dental amalgam is used in the remaining 42 percent. In the period examined...

Comparison between cephalometrics measure using anatomic and metallic porion point Fábio Lourenço Romano1 Edvaldo Luiz Ramalli2 Stenyo Wanderley Tavares2 João Sarmento Pereira Neto3 Maria Beatriz Borges de Araújo Magnani3 Darcy Flávio Nouer3 1MS Orthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry Department, University of Campinas, Piracicaba Dental School – Brazil; Professor, Department Restorative Prosthestic,...

19 RRJDS | Volume 4 | Issue 2 | June, 2016 An Unusual Case of Gemination in Mandibular Second Premolar: A Case Report Hena Rahman1*, Ramesh Chandra2*, Tarun K. Gaur3, Shailja Singh1, Supratim Tripathi1, Amisha Jain4 1Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Career PG Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, India 2Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodo...

Urgent dental care education is a critical aspect of the D.D.S. curriculum as dental students must be adequately prepared to face real-world dental emergency challenges in practice. Dental emergency education is likely the most variable component of the dental curriculum. To assess potential differences in emergency education, a sixteen-question survey was sent to directors of urgent care of al...