Dental Hygiene / Advanced Dental Therapy

Information on Evidence-Based Dentistry from the American Dental Association.

The Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry, established in 1995, is an independent body whose aim is to promote the teaching, learning, practice and evaluation of evidence-based dentistry world-wide. Includes a Database of Systematic Reviews.

NOTE: To find out if you can access the full text of systematic reviews via the Metropolitan State Library's subscriptions, access PubMed via the library website. You will then see full text links in PubMed.

Tips on creating clinical questions for evidence-based practice using the PICO model, from Winona State University.

dentalcare.com offers this online continuing education course about evidence-based practice in dentistry. It includes content on using the PICO model to create well-built, answerable clinical questions.

The following tutorial is designed to support both curriculum-based EBP instruction and the ongoing education of practicing professionals.

The tutorial consists of five instructional modules:

* Introduction to Evidence-Based Dentistry
* Structure of literature
* Research design
* Searching the literature
* Evaluating the quality of research

"This course describes the parts of a research report and the information that should be contained within each section. This will guide practitioners in their review of research articles so that they can identify the specific research questions/hypotheses being explored and what was discovered about them. These skills will help dental healthcare providers decide whether or not to incorporate these research findings into their patient therapy and practice procedures."