Patient-dental student provider communication in an academic dental clinic setting: A dyadic data analysis.

Purpose: Patient-dentist communication is an inherently dyadic social process; however, it is rarely regarded as such in research and pedagogy. This study utilizes a dyadic data analysis approach to study patient-dental student provider communication in an academic dental clinic.

Procedures: Using pairwise data collected from patient-dental student provider dyads, we conducted unadjusted and adjusted actor-partner interdependence models to examine the association of intrapersonal (actor) and interpersonal (partner) effects of three communication skills on the assessment of appointment interaction among patient-dental student provider dyads in a pre-doctoral comprehensive care academic dental clinic setting.

Effects of Oral Commensal Streptococci on Invasion into Oral Epithelial Cells.

The objective of this study was to determine if the interaction between common oral commensal bacteria and oral epithelial cells would provide protective effects against the invasion of periodontopathogen . Oral epithelial OKF6/Tert cells were used in co-cultures with , , , and . The viability of OKF6/Tert cells following a bacterial challenge was evaluated by trypan blue exclusion.