AIMS To determine the self-assessed continuing professional development (CPD) needs of dental practitioners and identify how each discipline can best be served by a dental CPD programme. To set findings in the context of the available literature and contribute to the development of CPD programmes. METHOD Topics were arranged into eight disciplines: practice management; paediatric dentistry; p...

Digital technologies have revolutionized the field of dentistry, offering numerous advantages in diagnosis, treatment planning, education, and patient care. This review article provides a comprehensive overview current state digital highlighting their applications, benefits, future prospects. Technologies allow for precise 3D imaging dental structures, facilitating virtual planning guiding plac...

The Covid 19 pandemic has had a huge impact on human society as whole. field of dentistry is not an exception to this. Adaptation the new situations in pandemic, due vulnerability dental staff and students, highly necessary. To do this newer protocols have been generated that are be used along with strict adherence older safety methods. With advancements technology, Teledentistry, online learni...

Computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) is a computer-based program that improves the efficiency of product design and components both inside and outside of engineering. In recent years the use of CADD in dentistry, more commonly known as computer-aided dentistry, has become commonplace, allowing doctors and patients to individually design treatment with the result visible through computer-ge...

This paper describes a short overview of the history and classification of different materials used in dentistry, and represents the challenge and usage of the latest inventions in the field of dental materials, with special focus on gold-based alloys. Chapter 1 gives an introductory overview of dental materials’ historical evolution; chapter 2 contains a review of dental material’s classificat...

Virtual reality is a computer based technology linked with the future of dentistry and dental practice. The virtual articulator is one such application in prosthetic and restorative dentistry based on virtual reality that will significantly reduce the limitations of the mechanical articulator, and by simulation of real patient data, allow analyses with regard to static and dynamic occlusion as ...

Aim ― This study was designed to analyze the citations of medical education to measure primarily the research trend of Problem-based learning in medical education and to compare them in the fields of dentistry with medicine, nursing and pharmacology. Material and Methods ― This study was a descriptive study using scientometrics and systematic review of citations. Electronic data bases Web of Sc...

Triphala is one of the well recognized Indian ayurvedic herbal formulation consisting of dried and powdered fruits of three medicinal plants namely Terminalia Bellerica Roxb (Bibhitaki), Terminalia chebula Retz (Haritaki) and Embellica officinalis Gaertn (Amalaki) [1]. There is a folk saying in India which says, “No Mother? Do not worry so long as you have Triphala”. This is insinuation to the ...