Dental Education, Practice, Research

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the anxiety levels of patients attending a university oral diagnosis clinic. Avoidance, felt physiologic responses, and the most fear-producing stimuli of dental treatment were also evaluated. METHOD AND MATERIALS: A total of 1,437 patients were asked to complete a ques…

The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate changes in the transverse plane following use of an acrylic bonded rapid maxillary expansion (RME) appliance in growing individuals during the active phase of treatment. The sample comprised 14 consecutively treated orthodontic patients (11 girls, 3 boys) who required…

AIM: To determine the factors affecting medical students' choice of the specialty of family medicine. METHODS: The study was conducted in the period from 2004-2006 and comprised 770 first-year medical students from Ondokuz Mayis, Karadeniz Technical, Kocaeli, and Adnan Menderes Universities, Turkey. The questionnaire…

• MAHCUBE ÇUBUKÇU
• MUSTAFA FEVZİ DİKİCİ

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of burnout among a group of Turkish preclinical dental students, to compare the level of burnout and to determine the consequences in structural equation model. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Preclinical dental students (n = 329, 50.5% of females and 49.5% of m…

• HÜSEYİN TEZEL

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of burnout among a group of Turkish preclinical dental students, to compare the level of burnout and to determine the consequences in structural equation model. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Preclinical dental students (n = 329, 50.5% of females and 49.5% of m…

• ÇİĞDEM ATALAYIN ÖZKAYA

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of burnout among a group of Turkish preclinical dental students, to compare the level of burnout and to determine the consequences in structural equation model. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Preclinical dental students (n = 329, 50.5% of females and 49.5% of m…

• MURAT BALKIS

BACKGROUND: Orofacial clefts are one of the most common congenital anomalies, but this disease burden is unevenly distributed worldwide. The authors hypothesize that this burden falls disproportionately on the countries with the smallest surgical workforce or lowest Socio-Demographic Index, rather than those with the…

• MERT ÇALIŞ

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The aim of this study was to compare the impact of case-based learning (CBL) and lecture-based learning (LBL) on fourth-year dental students' clinical decision making by using the Structure of Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) taxonomy. Participants in the study were fourth-year dental students (n=55) in academic year…

• ERDOĞAN FİŞEKÇİOĞLU

Dental education consists of both theoretical and practical learning for students to develop competence in treating patients clinically. When dental students encounter practical courses in their first year as a new educational experience, they must also learn to evaluate themselves. Self-evaluation is an essential ski…

• NESLİHAN ARHUN

Gender determination is an important step in identification. For gender determination, anthropometric evaluation is one of the main forensic evaluations. In the present study, morphometric analysis of maxillary sinuses was performed to determine gender. For morphometric analysis, coronal and axial paranasal sinus comp…

• İSMAİL ÖZGÜR CAN

The aim of this study was to examine the changes that occur in the oral health attitudes and behaviors of dental students in Istanbul, Turkey, during their dental education. The Turkish version of the Hiroshima University-Dental Behavioral Inventory (HU-DBI) was distributed among 757 dental students at the Dental Facu…

• KADRİYE PEKER
• ÖMER UYSAL