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PubMed1982

An instructional resource center in a senior dental clinic.

This paper describes the development of an instructional materials resource center designed specifically for senior dental students. The resource center is located on the clinic floor near the students' operatories. Development of the resource center began with a needs assessment involving 60 dental students and faculty from the General Practice Department. A pilot series of six slide-tape programs, developed to determine the best format for subsequent materials, was field-tested with senior dental students. The students exceeded the field test minimum competency level of 80 percent on each of the pilot programs. Students using a self-instructional format outperformed students who received a version without standard self-instructional elements on five of six tests; the differences were statistically significant on three tests. Cost-effective production techniques have reduced the development cost of subsequent programs to below a hundred dollars per program. Twenty programs were completed in the 1981-82 academic year.

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PubMed2003

Pain relief for paediatric dental chair anaesthesia: current practice in a community dental clinic.

AIM: A review of different modes of pain relief for simple dental extractions under general anaesthesia in a community dental setting. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Different analgesia regimens are used by different anaesthetic teams working in a single community clinic. A total of 72 patients were reviewed post-operatively in the recovery room and followed up with a telephone survey 24 h later to assess pain experienced by the patients. The efficacy of different analgesia regimens was analysed. RESULTS: The majority of patients were pain free in recovery, independent of the method of pain relief used. Local anaesthetic injections appear superior to systemic analgesia, and patients with local anaesthetic injections were more settled in recovery. DISCUSSION: Simple dental extractions cause pain and efficient administration of appropriate analgesia should be an integral part of the community dental service.

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PubMed1977

[Composition and residence of hospitalised oral-surgical patients of the University of Halle dental clinic during 1962-1972].

The present paper presents selected results from a statistical inquiry about the composition and the residence of the inpatients of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Surgical Stomatology of the Clinic and Policlinic of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg during the years 1962-1972. Preference is given to those results that illustrate the general situation of oral surgery in the GDR and emphasize the importance of this specialty in the framework of medical care of the population. Special attention is focused on problems concerning the area catered for. It is shown that the possibilities of the inpatient sector and the size of the area catered for are out of proportion.

Dental Clinics↗
PubMed1986

Estimating treatment and treatment times for special and nonspecial patients in hospital ambulatory dental clinics.

Increased time to treat the special patient is often cited as a barrier to dental care. The purpose of this study was to analyze the separate and combined effects of differences in dental services planned, services actually performed, and differences in treatment time requirements between special and nonspecial patients in a hospital ambulatory clinical setting. Data for this study were obtained from the UCLA evaluators of the RWJ-funded Hospital-Sponsored Ambulatory Dental Services Program (HSADSP). The results show that special patients require more dental treatment than nonspecial patients for advanced dental disease (i.e., periodontics, surgery, and removable prosthetics) and that they receive more of such services. The study also found that special patients should not be viewed as a homogeneous group when evaluating dental needs and required time resources for treatment. Three subgroups of special patients were identified: developmentally disabled, severely compromised, and moderately compromised. The developmentally disabled as compared to the nonspecial patients required significantly more (20 percent) provider time in completing a "representative" treatment plan.

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PubMed1989

Factors associated with clinical dental faculty research productivity.

The purpose of this study was to determine factors that are associated with increased individual research productivity among clinical faculty in 67 United States and Canadian schools of dentistry. Individual faculty research productivity was defined as the total number of articles in refereed journals and book chapters published during an academic career. The 328 respondents represented a response rate of 62.8 percent from a 25 percent stratified random sample of faculty who (1) had full-time appointments and held at least the D.M.D./D.D.S. or foreign equivalent, (2) taught in a clinical department of the dental schools, and (3) were not department chairpersons and did not hold administrative positions (assistant dean, associate dean, or dean) within the dental school. Respondents reported a mean of 9.9 years in full-time dental education, a mean of 10.8 publications, and a mean of 7.5 hours spent in research per week. Forward addition multiple regression analysis demonstrated that five predictor variables, from a total of 20 variables evaluated, accounted for 59.9 percent of the variance in individual faculty research productivity. These predictor variables were total dollar amount of past research funding, career age, training status, colleague utilization in conducting research, and conducting research from planned goals.

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