Preclinical dental students and their learning environment: A wellbeing perspective.

Objectives: Preclinical dental education can challenge students' wellbeing. These challenges are multifaceted and are experienced differently across student populations. However, an in-depth understanding of these challenges and the changes in the students' response to them remains limited.

Patient-provider communication during consultations for elective dental procedures: A scoping review.

Introduction: Patient-provider communication (PPC) is a critical component of patient-centered care. Original studies have examined specific factors related to PPC during consultations for elective dental procedures, but this evidence has yet to be comprehensively summarized. This scoping review aimed to understand better the extent and depth of the available literature regarding factors that influence PPC during consultations for elective dental procedures.

The six-domain well-being framework in oral health sciences: A pathway from theory to practice.

Objectives: Well-being is a complex and multifaceted construct that has gained popularity in oral health sciences education. Maintaining students' well-being is essential for their academic performance and quality of life. While many definitions and frameworks of well-being exist, their applicability to oral health sciences education remains unknown.

Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to measure patient experience with oral appliance therapy.

Study Objectives: To develop and validate a questionnaire to measure patient experience with oral appliance therapy.

Methods: The AMEE Guide No. 87 was followed in the development and validation of a patient questionnaire to assess patient experience with oral appliance therapy.

Orthodontic interventions as a management option for children with residual obstructive sleep apnea: a cohort study protocol.

Introduction: Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a sleep-breathing disorder that seems likely to have long-term negative social and health consequences in children and adolescents. There are no established standard management approaches when the first line of therapy, the tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A), is not indicated or fails to address paediatric OSA (residual paediatric OSA). This protocol describes a prospective cohort study that aims to assess the effectiveness of orthodontic interventions for managing residual paediatric OSA in patients with concomitant craniofacial issues.

Access to Multidisciplinary Care for Pediatric Weight Management: Exploring Perspectives of the Health Care Team within Canada and the United States.

In Canada and the United States, most families referred for pediatric weight management services do not start treatment. Of families who initiate care, many discontinue before the program ends. Parents and youth have reported difficulties in accessing services as an important barrier to starting or completing programming.

Should I stay or should I go? Understanding families' decisions regarding initiating, continuing, and terminating health services for managing pediatric obesity: the protocol for a multi-center, qualitative study.

Background: At least two million Canadian children meet established criteria for weight management. Due to the adverse health consequences of obesity, most pediatric weight management research has examined the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions to improve lifestyle behaviors, reduce co-morbidities, and enable weight management. However, little information is available on families' decisions to initiate, continue, and terminate weight management care.