Senior Dental Students’ Experience with Cariogram in a Pediatric Dentistry Clinic

Objective. To determine anxiety in relation to gender, Grade Point Average (GPA), level of education and academic and clinical situations in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Also, to identify academic and clinical anxiety levels among postgraduate pediatric dentistry students. Methods. A cross-sectional study at governmental training hospitals was conducted. All registered postgraduate students in pediatric dental programs during the year 2015-2016 were included in the study. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed electronically to 60 postgraduate pediatric dentistry students aged between 25 and 45 years old. The questionnaire is composed of 55 questions that investigated demographic data, academic and clinical related situations including investigations, diagnosis, treatment, and complications in treatment. Results. The study showed a higher anxiety level in younger age dental students (76.7% compared to 23.3%) and Saudi board residents (60%). Comparing gender differences in anxiety revealed that a significant difference (P≤0.05) was found and anxiety seems to be more among female dental students (2% very anxious, 64% slightly anxious, and 34% not anxious) as compared to male dental students (8% very anxious, 69% slightly anxious, and 23% not anxious). Conclusions. There was increased awareness, detailed understanding, and handling of the patients by senior postgraduate pediatric dentistry students compared to junior students.

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Cariology education for undergraduate Brazilian dental students

RGO - Revista Gaúcha de Odontologia ◽

10.1590/1981-863720180003000073428 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 239-244

Author(s):

Daiana Back GOUVEA ◽

Sonia GROISMAN ◽

Marcelo José Strazzeri BÖNECKER ◽

Fabio SAMPAIO ◽

Saul Martins PAIVA ◽

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Keyword(s):

Core Curriculum ◽

Response Rate ◽

Pediatric Dentistry ◽

Dental Erosion ◽

Dental Students ◽

Item Questionnaire ◽

Dental Hard Tissues ◽

Second Year ◽

Dental Schools ◽

Education In Brazil

ABSTRACT This study sought to provide an overview of current cariology education for undergraduate Brazilian dental students. Data collection was via a Portuguese version of a 12-item questionnaire (Schulte et al., 2011) that was sent to all Brazilian dental schools (n = 219). The response rate was 57.0% (n = 125). Of the schools that returned the questionnaire, 84.8% supported the development of a Brazilian cariology curriculum. The units responsible for teaching cariology were predominantly operative dentistry (49.6%), pediatric dentistry (49.6%), dental public health (44.8%), and cariology (32%). Theoretical teaching of cariology (74.4%) and pre-clinical exercises (63.2%) were cited to occur mainly during the second year of the course, while clinical activities were placed in the third (71.2%) and fourth (64.8%) years. Among respondents, 76.8% of the schools included dental erosion and 86.4% included defects of dental hard tissues, such as abrasion, in teaching cariology. This survey was able to determine the panorama of cariology education in Brazil and to detect some differences among Brazilian geographic areas. The promotion of a workshop to discuss the topics that should be taught to undergraduate dental students and the development of a Brazilian core curriculum in cariology would be likely to reduce the differences in teaching cariology in Brazil.

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Assessment of the clinical skills of dental students in the dept. of pediatric dentistry

Iranian Journal of Pediatric Dentistry ◽

10.29252/ijpd.10.2.81 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 81-88

Author(s):

A Sodagar ◽

A Jafari ◽

L Sedighpour ◽

H Ghahremani Gol

Keyword(s):

Clinical Skills ◽

Pediatric Dentistry ◽

Dental Students

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Influence of Examiner Experience on Clinical Performance of Visual Inspection in Detecting and Assessing the Activity Status of Caries Lesions

Operative Dentistry ◽

10.2341/12-067-c ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 (6) ◽

pp. 583-590 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

T Gimenez ◽

DG Bittar ◽

C Piovesan ◽

CAB Guglielmi ◽

KY Fujimoto ◽

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Keyword(s):

Clinical Features ◽

Visual Inspection ◽

Dental Treatment ◽

Pediatric Dentistry ◽

Dental Students ◽

Assessment System ◽

Caries Detection ◽

Caries Activity ◽

Caries Lesions ◽

Different Levels

SUMMARYOur hypothesis was that a method of caries activity evaluation based on the clinical features of the lesions would be less time consuming but more influenced by the examiner's experience than the scoring system used in association with the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS). Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of three groups of examiners with different levels of experience using two different methods to assess the activity status of caries lesions by visual inspection. A cross-sectional study in a dental office setting was performed selecting 18 children, aged three to eight years, who had sought dental treatment at a dental school. Examinations to detect caries lesions were performed using visual inspection by six examiners with different levels of experience: two undergraduate dental students, two specialists in pediatric dentistry, and two graduate students. The examiners used ICDAS and two different methods to assess caries activity: using an additional score system or considering the examination of clinical features. Two benchmark examiners examined the children in a joint session, and their consensus was considered to be the reference standard. The sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility were calculated for different thresholds: all, cavitated, and active caries lesions. Multilevel analyses were performed to compare the different methods and examiners. No differences were observed among the examiners, either in detecting all lesions and cavitated lesions or regarding the activity assessment. The methods of assessing activity status performed similarly, but the time spent on examinations was shorter for the method evaluating clinical features. In conclusion, the experience of examiners does not significantly influence the performance of visual inspection, and both methods of assessing activity status result in similar diagnostic accuracy.

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Dental students’ and lecturers’ perception of the degree of difficulty of caries detection associated learning topics in Brazil

Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions ◽

10.3352/jeehp.2015.12.56 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 56 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Juan Sebastian Lara ◽

Mariana Minatel Braga ◽

Caleb Shitsuka ◽

Chao Lung Wen ◽

Ana Estela Haddad

Keyword(s):

Pediatric Dentistry ◽

Learning Objects ◽

Dental Students ◽

Brown Spot ◽

Caries Detection ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Developmental Defects ◽

Academic Level ◽

Carious Lesions ◽

Perceived Difficulty

Purpose: It aimed to explore the degree of difficulty of caries-detection-associated-topics perceived by dental students and lecturers as pedagogical step in the development of learning objects for e-learning. Methods: A convenience sample comprising ninety-eight subjects from different academic levels (undergraduate/graduate students and pediatric dentistry lecturers) participated. Two spreadsheets (isolated/relative) were created considering key topics in the caries detection process. The isolated evaluation intended to explore each topic in an isolated way, while the relative intended to classify, comparatively, the participants’ perceived difficulty per topic. Afterwards, data were analyzed. All values on spreadsheets were combined obtaining the subject’s final perception. Associations between the subjects’ degree of the perceived difficulty and academic level were estimated. ANOVA was used to determine differences regarding the perception among evaluated topics in distinct groups. Results: Caries histopathology and detection of proximal carious lesions were the topics perceived as the most difficult in the process of caries detection by both students and lecturers. Differentiation between an extrinsic pigmentation and a brown-spot (caries lesion) as well as differential diagnosis between caries and enamel developmental defects or non-carious lesions were considered as more difficult by undergraduates in comparison to graduates/lecturers (regression-coefficient=14.54; Standard Error=3.34; P<0.001 and 8.40, 3.31, and 0.01 respectively). Conclusion: Topics as histopathology and detection of proximal caries lesions were identified as the most difficult despite the academic level. However, some topics are differently perceived according to the group. These results are useful for developing pedagogical material, based on the students real learning needs/expectations.

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Post-graduate specialty choice among interns of a private dental school in Jeddah

International Journal of ADVANCED AND APPLIED SCIENCES ◽

10.21833/ijaas.2021.08.005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 36-41

Author(s):

Vanka et al. ◽

Keyword(s):

Career Counseling ◽

Oral Surgery ◽

Maxillofacial Surgery ◽

Pediatric Dentistry ◽

Dental Students ◽

Specialty Choice ◽

Dental School ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Post Graduate

Evidence indicates that the majority of dental students report continuing their education further towards a post-graduate specialty degree. The choice of a career is a critical decision that has an obvious impact on a future life pattern. Based on the various factors that influence the decision of the students in choosing the post-graduate specialty student career counseling may be provided at the university level. This study was done to evaluate the specialty preference and their influencing factors among the interns in a private dental school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The study is a cross-sectional survey conducted using a self-administered questionnaire among final year dental students batch 2020-2021. The response rate for the study was 85% which is 87 out of 102 interns from the batch 2020-21. The subjects of choice to pursue post-graduation among the respondents was Endodontics, Prosthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry, Oral maxillofacial surgery, Periodontics, Orthodontics, Restorative and esthetic dentistry, Advanced General Dentistry, Forensic Dentistry, and Oral Pathology. It is revealed that Oral Surgery followed by Orthodontics may be the leading choice of dental specialization among students and the preferred choice may be Restorative and Aesthetic Dentistry. Our study and literature review suggest that there are few post-graduate specialties that are more preferred in comparison to some that are not. It is warranted that the students should be oriented about all the specializations in dentistry which will help in a targeted approach towards meeting the demand of supplying specialists from all the fields in Dentistry.

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Evaluating Course of Pediatric Dentistry on Correlation Analysis between Dental Students' Achievements of Subjects and OSCE

THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN ACADEMY OF PEDTATRIC DENTISTRY ◽

10.5933/jkapd.2013.40.4.253 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 40 (4) ◽

pp. 253-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jaebeum Bang ◽

Jaeyoung Rim ◽

Jaehong Park

Keyword(s):

Correlation Analysis ◽

Pediatric Dentistry ◽

Dental Students

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Perception Survey of Virtual Reality Simulation with Malocclusion Models

THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN ACADEMY OF PEDTATRIC DENTISTRY ◽

10.5933/jkapd.2021.48.3.302 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 302-312

Author(s):

Boram Kim ◽

Jeeheon Ryu ◽

Seonmi Kim ◽

Namki Choi

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Completion Time ◽

Pediatric Dentistry ◽

Clinical Findings ◽

Dental Students ◽

Task Completion ◽

Satisfaction Survey ◽

Task Completion Time ◽

First Case ◽

Treatment Plans

The purpose of this study was to develop prototype of virtual reality(VR) simulation with malocclusion models and evaluate its applicability. Task abilities, task completion time, and a satisfaction survey were compared between dentist trainees and dental students. Participants were instructed to observe virtual malocclusion models and then performed three tasks to diagnose the type of malocclusion, determine clinical findings and develop treatment plans. Their satisfaction with the simulation experience were evaluated using a questionnaire containing five questions. Task abilities of trainees related to clinical features and treatment plans were significantly higher than that of students(p < 0.01). In both groups, the task completion time for the second case was significantly reduced compared to that for the first case(p < 0.01). The satisfaction survey showed high scores and positive responses for this simulation in both groups. If the prototype of VR simulation is continuously advanced, it will be applicable for orthodontic education in pediatric dentistry.

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