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Evidence-Based Dentistry: An Overview
2015
Dentistry has evolved from the heuristic approach of the past to the present evidence-based approach which is the need of the day to safeguard the building of our clinical practise from collapsing under the burden of thousands of clinical studies conducted every year across the globe. Evidence-Based Dentistry (EBD) helps filter the immense amount of information which emerges in the literature so that the best available current scientific evidence can be applied to improve the abilities of dental practitioners in therapeutic and preventive research so that they can cope with the complexity of dealing with a wide range of oral health related issues. The beneficiaries of EBD are the public, dentists as well as researchers.
Evidence-based practice in dentistry
2000
SUMMARY The importance of evidence in teaching and in support of clinical decisions is well established in health care, including dentistry. Defence of clinical decisions increasingly requires reliable data or evidence to support the stance taken. Assistance in finding the best evidence comes from a variety of sources, including computerised databases, journals, continuing education meetings, and study clubs. The randomised
Evidence - Based Dentistry: Do We Know What It Means?
Acta stomatologica Croatica, 2003
To practice in an evidence-based dentistry manner, practitioners must be able to formulate a clear question, find the best available evidence efficiently, evaluate the evidence systematically and, if it is relevant and credible, apply the results of the appraisal to their practice. Materials, instruments, techniques, and therapies change so fast that most of us have difficulty keeping up with their names, much less the details of their use. As electronic technology (Internet, CD-ROM, and DVD) expands, information retrieval is increasingly easy. Patients have access to the same data that doctors do in many cases, and as their knowledge levels increase, so do their expectations and demands. Evidence-based dentistry closes the gap between clinical research and real world dental practice and provides dentists with powerful tools to interpret and apply research findings. Evidence-based dentistry process is not a rigid methodological evaluation of scientific evidence that dictates what pr...
Evidence based Research in Dentistry: An Insight
The Journal of medical research, 2019
Dentists need to make clinical decisions based on limited scientific evidence. The goal of evidence-based dentistry is to help practitioners provide their patients with optimal care. This is achieved by integrating sound research evidence with personal clinical expertise and patient values to determine the best course of treatment. The basis of evidence-based dentistry and its application in research work.
Evidence-based dentistry: A new dimension in oral health
Journal of Advanced Clinical and Research Insights, 2014
The success of evidence-based medicine depends on the integration of the best research evidence. It is a blend of our patient's unique values and circumstances with our clinical expertise. Evidence-based dentistry is a new paradigm in medicine, meaning that a therapy should be based on evidence gathered from scientifi c studies, preferentially based on randomized clinical trials involving a substantial number of patients. There are three main interrelated aspects to the practice of oral medicine. They are clinical care, research, learning, and teaching. Most of the oral diseases are complex, chronic problems that do not have defi nitive etiology. Many diagnostic tests are costly and need to be critically evaluated for their sensitivity, specifi city and cost benefi ts analysis. Most treatment protocols are opinion based, and prognosis of many oral diseases is diffi cult to predict. Hence, practice of evidence-based health care in oral medicine will defi nitely be helpful when clinical decisions are made.
2005
The literature does not provide a clear definition of Evidence based Healthcare (EBHC) and there is some uncertainty between authors as to whether the concepts ofEBHC and Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and Evidence-based dentistry (EBD) arecomparable and the terminology is interchangeable. However the most frequently useddefinition of EBHC is: Evidence-based medicine (EBM)“the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients” 1.