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OBJECTIVE To determine whether the use of referral letters with and without photography will make a difference to prioritising patients to the oral medicine department. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Oral medicine department of Birmingham Dental Hospital. METHOD Forty-eight photographs were...
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PMID: 20418808
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A clinical stomatological and social research of 432 young people at the age of 16-25 years was wade in establishments for higher and specialized secondary education in Moscow. It was found out that unbalanced food dominated by soft carbohydrates, frequent eating of sweets as well as low medical cul...
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PMID: 20436401
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Our grid proved to be a valid instrument although it was very expensive. When integrated with other strategies for improving lecturing, such as student scoring, peer evaluation, and microteaching, observational research can be a cost-effective method to stimulate guided reflection and to improve the...
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PMID: 19811200
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About 2000 years ago, our country already had a record about mouth washing. It was one of the earliest countries that invented teeth brushing and the toothbrush. It mentioned many kinds of effective techniques of teeth protection and health improvment such as swallowing the saliva, knocking the teet...
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PMID: 19824370
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We are on the brink of a remarkable transformation for both dental education and the practice of dentistry, one that will require enhanced leadership, a revitalized vision and a passion for excellence to allow its continued progress and ultimate success....
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PMID: 20222217
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Urgent need in methodology of information estimation for true clinical decision taking gave powerful impulse for evidence based medicine concept development that appeared at the end of 80th years. Proved efficacy and safety, optimal correlation of the indices were the stages of the methods and means...
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PMID: 19692943
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The curricula of dental faculties in many countries of the European Union can be described as odontological. The faculties of some of the countries who have become and are becoming members of the European Community have traditionally educated dentists in the stomatological tradition. In 1987, the Sp...
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PMID: 19021728
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We propose that the education of dentists should be modified to produce oral physicians....
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PMID: 18768450
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The history of continuing dental education in Hungary has had a close relationship with continuing medical education. In the beginning continuing education had been voluntary and occasional and it obtained its real professional merits only during the first half of the 20th century. Nevertheless the...
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PMID: 18756843
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This study is the first to detail the scope of practice, lesion occurrence and utilisation of services offered by OMP specialists in Australia. The demand for OMP services is strong....
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PMID: 18410579
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This article describes how a multidisciplinary problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum was established at the School of Stomatology at Wuhan University (WHUSS) in China for preclinical education in a seven-year dental school program. Based on positive feedback from a modified PBL program implemented...
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PMID: 18451085
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One hundred and fifteen physicians answered (16.6%), 130 dentists answered (18.8%). The practitioners sent back 180 questionnaires completed by their patients (6.5%). These results, higher than the ones reported in the above-mentioned studies, allowed determining the perception of maxillofacial surg...
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PMID: 18191428
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The purpose of this study was to make a brief diagnosis of the evolution of the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS) between 2005 and 2007, by reviewing quantitative and qualitative aspects of the articles published in the JAOS within this period. All articles published in the JAOS in the time spa...
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PMID: 19082402
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SOMWeb is an online collaboration system based on Semantic Web technologies, which is used for knowledge sharing and dissemination within an oral medicine community in Sweden. Based on a previous study of the use of SOMWeb, general patterns of interaction and communicative activities involved in com...
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PMID: 18487727
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SOMWeb is beneficial for individual clinicians as well as for the SOMNet community. The system provides an opportunity for its members to share both high quality clinical practice knowledge and external evidence related to complex oral medicine cases. The foundation in Semantic Web technologies enab...
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PMID: 18725355
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Francis P. McCarthy MD (1883-1970) was a major pioneer in the development of the discipline of Oral Medicine in America. A 1905 graduate of Tufts Medical School, he later became certified in both pathology and dermatology. As a practicing dermatologist Dr. McCarthy's attention was drawn to diseases...
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PMID: 19213267
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The state of complex forensic-medical expertise in implantological stomatology was analyzed in the article. The questions of assessment of medical aid quality with the use of score system of risk degree and factors determination are considered. The authors suggest to use the score system of unfavora...
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PMID: 18450094
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The clinico-pharmacological description of nooclerin is given. The premedication effectiveness in patients with various individual typological features in out-patient stomatologic treatment was studied.
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PMID: 18454115
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Multiple processes in economics reflect in management and corporative culture of any institution. Long-term motivational influence plays main role in the motivation mechanism; in turn motives form stable and long-term acting system integrated into corporative culture of any stomatological institutio...
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PMID: 18454124
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The number of old people shows increasing tendency worldwide. The prevalence of oral diseases has been increased with age. In the older adult population tooth loss, dental caries and periodontal diseases frequently can be observed as characteristic features of their oral health condition. Additional...
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PMID: 18361201
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Chinese dental education is organized and controlled by the government at different levels, and the curriculum is based on the stomatology model. The unique feature of this system has been a heavy emphasis on the medical sciences and the integration of medicine with dentistry. However, the problems...
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PMID: 17971575
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We investigated the accuracy of diagnoses of oral mucosal diseases made by family physicians (without a dental degree), other categories of physicians, and general dental practitioners prior to referring patients to a university oral medicine unit. Over a three-year period, we compared the diagnoses...
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PMID: 17468309
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Urgent dental care education is a critical aspect of the D.D.S. curriculum as dental students must be adequately prepared to face real-world dental emergency challenges in practice. Dental emergency education is likely the most variable component of the dental curriculum. To assess potential differe...
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PMID: 17389567
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Oral and maxillofacial pathology (OMP) may be viewed as a specialty of dentistry, which addresses the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the oral and perioral regions. Consensus definitions may be found in the accreditation standards for OMP as published by the American Dental Association, and i...
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PMID: 18335817
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This invited article offers dentists and dental care professionals an understanding of the most appropriate and effective way of referring patients for specialist care in oral medicine, hence enabling them to offer more effective care to patients, as well as avoiding misunderstandings. CLINICAL RELE...
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PMID: 17784583
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