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.

Thriving in foreign learning environments: The case of hands-on activities in early years of dental education.

Objectives: Hands-on learning environments can challenge learners' wellbeing in dental education, given their unfamiliarity with students. As today's learners are more aware about their wellbeing needs, it is important to explore the depth and complexity of the challenges they experience and provide them with the necessary support strategies. This study aims to identify the challenges and sources of cognitive overload of early years' dental students across two time-points: 2012 and 2022.

Metal tolerance and biosorption capacities of bacterial strains isolated from an urban watershed.

Rapid industrialization and urbanization have led to widespread metal contamination in aquatic ecosystems. This study explores the metal tolerance and biosorption characteristics of four bacterial strains ( sp. L2, sp.

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.

Exploring students' perspectives from two Canadian dental schools toward online learning experiences.

Objectives: The utilization of online teaching and learning in dental education has grown during the past two academic years. In addition to its numerous advantages, the modality also has its limitations. The objective of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of oral health sciences students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Toronto (UofT) regarding their experiences with online learning over the course of 2 pandemic-impacted years.