TY - JOUR
T1 - Minimally invasive management of dental caries
T2 - Contemporary teaching of posterior resin-based composite placement in U.S. and Canadian dental schools
AU - Lynch, Christopher D.
AU - Frazier, Kevin B.
AU - McConnell, Robert J.
AU - Blum, Igor R.
AU - Wilson, Nairn H.F.
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - Background: Resin-based composites are an increasingly popular material for restoring posterior teeth, permitting minimally invasive cavity preparations and esthetic restorations. The authors investigated current teaching of the placement of posterior resin-based composites in U.S. and Canadian dental schools. Methods: In late 2009 and early 2010, the authors, with the assistance of the Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators (CODE), invited 67 dental schools to participate in an Internetbased survey. Results: The response rate was 73 percent. Although all schools taught the placement of resin-based composites in occlusal and most occlusoproximal cavities, eight schools (16 percent) did not teach placement of three-surface occlusoproximal resin-based composite restorations in permanent molars. Resin-based composites accounted for 49 percent of direct posterior restorations placed by dental students in 2009 and 2010, a 30 percent increase from 2005. Conclusions: Teaching placement of posterior resin-based composites continues to increase in dental schools in the United States and Canada, with predoctoral students gaining, on average, an equal amount of experience placing posterior resin-based composites and amalgams in terms of numbers of restorations. Clinical Implications: Evidence-based, up-to-date teaching programs, including those in operative dentistry, are needed to best prepare students for careers in dentistry.
AB - Background: Resin-based composites are an increasingly popular material for restoring posterior teeth, permitting minimally invasive cavity preparations and esthetic restorations. The authors investigated current teaching of the placement of posterior resin-based composites in U.S. and Canadian dental schools. Methods: In late 2009 and early 2010, the authors, with the assistance of the Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators (CODE), invited 67 dental schools to participate in an Internetbased survey. Results: The response rate was 73 percent. Although all schools taught the placement of resin-based composites in occlusal and most occlusoproximal cavities, eight schools (16 percent) did not teach placement of three-surface occlusoproximal resin-based composite restorations in permanent molars. Resin-based composites accounted for 49 percent of direct posterior restorations placed by dental students in 2009 and 2010, a 30 percent increase from 2005. Conclusions: Teaching placement of posterior resin-based composites continues to increase in dental schools in the United States and Canada, with predoctoral students gaining, on average, an equal amount of experience placing posterior resin-based composites and amalgams in terms of numbers of restorations. Clinical Implications: Evidence-based, up-to-date teaching programs, including those in operative dentistry, are needed to best prepare students for careers in dentistry.
KW - Dental education
KW - Dental students
KW - Operative dentistry
KW - Posterior resin-based composites
KW - Resin-based composites
KW - Restorations
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U2 - 10.14219/jada.archive.2011.0243
DO - 10.14219/jada.archive.2011.0243
M3 - Article
C2 - 21628682
AN - SCOPUS:79960091620
SN - 0002-8177
VL - 142
SP - 612
EP - 620
JO - Journal of the American Dental Association
JF - Journal of the American Dental Association
IS - 6
ER -