The scarcity of full-time clinical faculty members in dental schools across the country is a major crisis confronting dentistry. Dental schools are experiencing critical faculty shortages and are struggling to maintain appropriate faculty to student ratios. The adage of "doing more with less" applies, in many ways, to dental schools and their mission of educating future dentists. Solutions to t...

AIM The study aimed to assess the awareness of the Consumer Protection Act among dental health professionals in dental schools of Ghaziabad, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was carried out on dental health professionals in dental schools of Ghaziabad, India. A total of 348 dental health professionals (170 males and 178 females) were surveyed, out of which 1...

This report presents data from ADEA's 2001-02 survey of vacant budgeted faculty positions and examines challenges likely to exacerbate faculty shortages in the immediate future. The fifty-four dental schools responding to the survey reported 344 vacant budgeted positions, a decrease of 4 percent from 2000 to 2001. Seventy-nine percent of these vacancies are for full-time positions. Approximatel...

A consistent theme in the national dialogue about future directions for the educational arm of dentistry is how best to cultivate a school environment that will be seen as attractive by members of the dental community who desire to serve their profession as teachers and scholars. As a first step toward stimulating broad-based reflection on the working environment within dental schools, the ADEA...

ALEXANDRINA MUNTEAN1*, ANCA MESAROS2, DANA FESTILA3, MARIOARA MOLDOVAN4, MICHAELA MESAROS1 1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, I. Hatieganu Cluj Napoca, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Paediatric Dentistry Department, 8 Victor Babes Str., 400012, Cluj Napoca, Romania 2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, I.Hatieganu Cluj Napoca, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Dental Propaedeutic and Aesthetics Dep...

Most dental school faculty members arrive on campus with a wealth of clinical experience but little to no teacher training. For the past two decades, there has been a call for schools to educate their faculty on a wide variety of topics including educational methodology and cutting-edge educational techniques through faculty development programs. Drawing on theories of general program evaluatio...

Assistant Professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Azad University, Tehran, Iran Dentist Dentist, Epidemiologist, Member of Research Center of Dental Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Dental Student Associate Professor, San Antonio Dental Faculty. Texas, USA Postgraduate Student, Department of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Azad Universi...

Is Bacteriolysis In vivo a Friend or a Foe? Relation to Sepsis, Chronic Granulomatous Inflammation and to Oral Disorders: an Overview Hypothesis Isaac Ginsburg1, Erez Koren1* and Osnat Feuerstein2 1Institute for Dental Research, Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2The Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew university of Jerusale...

Dental schools continue to have difficulty recruiting and retaining faculty. One approach to augment student learning would be to train and utilize senior dental students as instructors in preclinical courses. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of using senior dental students as instructors on the performance of second-year students in two preclinical prosthodontic courses. In the...

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Azad University. Tehran, Iran. 2 Dentist. 3 Dentist, Epidemiologist, Member of Research Center of Dental Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran. 4 Dental Student. 5 Associate Professor, San Antonio Dental Faculty. Texas, USA. 6 Postgraduate Student, Department of Endodontics, School of Dentist...