Contributors: 1Associate Professor, Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 3Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dental Scienc...

PURPOSE Dental hygiene educators are expressing concerns about faculty retirement causing an educator shortage. The primary objective of this study was to investigate current dental hygiene faculty demographic characteristics, future plans and perceptions of important skills for future faculty. METHODS A Web-based survey instrument was designed after reviewing the literature and consulting wi...

Professor, Department of Dental Materials, Faculty of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Av. Lineu Prestes, 2227, 05508-900 São Paulo, Brazil Graduate student, Department of Dental Materials, Faculty of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Professor, Department of Dental Materials, Faculty of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Visiting Professor, Department ...

This study aimed to better understand how and why people choose dental school faculty members as their oral health care providers. Increasing financial constraints in U.S. dental schools have led their administrators to seek alternative funding sources, one of which can be revenues from dental school faculty practice. To effectively promote faculty practice, it is necessary to understand how an...

The number of vacant budgeted faculty positions in dental schools has continued to decline, dropping from 296 in 2003-04 to 275 in 2004-05. The number of lost positions declined to twenty-five, from 147 lost positions reported in 2003-04. While the average number of vacancies per dental school was just under five, three-quarters of these vacancies were considered usual and normal to the operati...

Received for publication: Feb. 22, 2008. Revised: May 19, 2008. rEZUMat 1 Department of Anatomy and Embryology, 2 Department of Endodontology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, 3 Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania, 4 Department of Oral Rehab...

KRISZTINA MÁRTHA1, ALEXANDRU OGODESCU2*, IRINA ZETU3, EMILIA OGODESCU2*, RÉKA GYERGYAY4, MARIANA PACURAR1 1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mure’, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, 38 Gheorghe Marinescu Str., 540141, Târgu Mureo, Romania 2 ”Victor Babeo” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, 2nd Department, Di...

1Orthodontic Department, Dental Faculty, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, IR Iran 2Orthodontic Department, Dental Faculty, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, IR Iran 3Oral Maxillofacial Radiology, Dental Faculty, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol , IR Iran 4Dentist, Private Practice, Sari, IR Iran 5Non-Communicable Pediatrics Disease Research Center, Babol Un...

Research about educational best practices is negatively perceived by many dental faculty. Separation between teaching and learning strategies commonly employed in dental education and evidence-based educational techniques is real and caused by a variety of factors: the often incomprehensible jargon of educational specialists; traditional academic dominance of research, publication, and grantsma...

Dental and dental hygiene faculty members often do not provide consistent instruction in the clinical environment, especially in tasks requiring clinical judgment. From previous efforts to calibrate faculty members in calculus detection using typodonts, researchers have suggested using human subjects and emerging technology to improve consistency in clinical instruction. The purpose of this pil...