PURPOSE Dental extraction is a routine part of clinical dental practice. For this reason, understanding the way how students' extraction knowledge and skills development are important. PROBLEM STATEMENT AND OBJECTIVES To date, there is no accredited statement about the most effective method for the teaching of exodontia to dental students. Students have different abilities and preferences reg...

This paper is a survey and discussion of the teaching methods, objectives, and benefits associated with music programs in oral schools for children who are deaf and hard of hearing.

As Prensky (2001) observes, "Our students have changed radically. Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach" (1). Prensky sees today's students as digital natives while most of today's teachers remain digital immigrants. In particular, today's educators are acculturated to a print paradigm while students are increasingly products of a digitally-based...

Oral exams deliver distinct advantages over written exams; however they are often criticized because of their poor standardization. In anatomical teaching they offer the opportunity to assess the practical capability of students within the context of real human specimens. The purpose of this study was to find out which format of oral examination students find most favourable and to analyze how ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the effectiveness of an infant oral health care educational intervention on the knowledge of female dental students at King Saud University in Riyadh city. METHODS One hundred and twenty-eight students participated in the study. The participants were from different levels in the dental college, ie, second year (D2), third year (D3), fourth year (D4), and fifth ...

Till date, English as a Second Language (ESL) educators involved in teaching language and communication to engineering students face an uphill task in developing graduate communicative competency. This challenge is accentuated by the apparent lack of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) materials for engineering students in the engineering curriculum. As such, most ESL educators are forced to pl...