Immediate and Early Loading of Two-Implant-Supported Mandibular Overdentures: Three-Year Report of Loading Results of a Single-Center Prospective Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

Purpose: To report the clinical and radiographic outcomes of a 3-year follow-up of immediately and early loaded two-implant-supported mandibular overdentures.

Materials And Methods: Forty edentulous patients were randomly subdivided into two groups. In the immediate loading group, two Straumann implants were splinted with a Dolder bar and loaded with a mandibular overdenture within the first 48 hours postoperative.

Dental students' part-time jobs in dental practices in the Netherlands.

Objective: In the Netherlands, the Individual Health Care Professions Act (IHCP Act) allows dental students, amongst other non-qualified individuals, to work under certain conditions in a dental practice. The aim of the study was to determine how many dental students have part-time employment in dental practice and which professional tasks they carry out. We also asked the dental students their opinion about the IHCP Act.

Dental hygiene students' part-time jobs in dental practices in the Netherlands.

Objective: Many students have paid employment while studying. In the Netherlands, the Individual Health Care Professions Act (IHCP Act) allows dental hygiene students to work under certain conditions in a dental practice. The aim of the study was to determine how many dental hygiene students have part-time job employment in dental practice and which professional tasks they carry out.

[Study on delegation. Dental activities by students in dental practices].

Some dental students in the Netherlands have a job in a dental practice next to their study, as the Individual Health Care Professions Act (introduced in 1997 as Law BIG) allows. The aim of the study was to determine how many dental students of the Academie Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam actually work in a dental practice, which kinds of dental activities they perform and whether these meet the requirements of the Act mentioned before. All dental students (n = 947) received a questionnaire by e-mail.