[Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) in the "iMED DENT" model of undergraduate dental training at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf].

In dental education, the assessment of clinical activities is especially important, as students start to perform treatments on real patients beginning in the seventh semester. When entering the final exam, students must be capable of carrying out all treatments of a dental professional, as they will exercise their profession as dentists directly after the exam. During dental training, preparation for the performance of dental activities in a clinical context is achieved through preclinical coursework and early patient contact before the seventh semester to enhance competencies.

[Study section "From Symptom to Disease"-steps towards an integrated dentistry program].

Based on the integrated medicine program (iMED) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, the dental education concept was fundamentally revised and an integrated dentistry program (iMED DENT) was developed. During this process, reform goals such as interdisciplinarity between dentistry and medicine, early patient contact, and psychosocial and communicative competencies as well as a scientific orientation were defined. The second study section "From Symptom to Disease" during the second and third years of study form a link between "Normal Function" in the first year and the final training section "Therapy".

Primary and Secondary Stability of Short (4 mm) Versus Standard (≥ 10 mm) Implants Placed in the Same Mandible: A Prospective Clinical Study.

To compare the stability of short vs standard (ie, regular-length) implants in the edentulous mandible. In this prospective clinical study, 20 patients with edentulous mandibles received four implants each-two short implants (4 mm) in the region of the first molar and two standard implants (≥ 10 mm) in the interforaminal region. Implant stability was assessed using resonance frequency analysis immediately after implant placement and at the day of the abutment connection after 3 months of healing in order to provide an implant stability quotient (ISQ).

Immediately provisionalized tapered conical connection implants for single-tooth restorations in the maxillary esthetic zone: a 5-year prospective single-cohort multicenter analysis.

Objectives: This open, single-cohort, multicenter, prospective study investigated the efficacy of immediately provisionalized tapered conical connection implant for single-tooth restorations in the anterior and premolar regions of the maxilla after 5 years of function.

Materials And Methods: All implants were placed in healed sites and immediately provisionalized. MBLs, soft-tissue parameters, and oral-health impact profile (OHIP) were evaluated at implant insertion, 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60 months.

A prospective multicenter evaluation of immediately functionalized tapered conical connection implants for single restorations in maxillary anterior and premolar sites: 3-year results.

Objectives: This multicenter prospective clinical trial investigated immediately provisionalized, anodized, conical connection, tapered implants with platform shifting in maxillary anterior and premolar sites.

Materials And Methods: Patients requiring single-tooth implant-supported restorations in maxillary anterior and premolar sites were enrolled. Implants were immediately provisionalized and evaluated at insertion, 6 months, and annually thereafter.

An open prospective single cohort multicenter study evaluating the novel, tapered, conical connection implants supporting single crowns in the anterior and premolar maxilla: interim 1-year results.

Objectives: The aim of this multicenter prospective clinical study was to evaluate anodized tapered implants with a conical connection and integrated platform shifting placed in the anterior and premolar maxilla.

Materials And Methods: The study enrolled patients requiring single-tooth restorations in healed sites of maxillary anterior and premolar teeth. All implants were immediately temporized.

Validation of the response format of the Oral Health Impact Profile.

The study investigated the validity of the response format of the Oral Health Impact Profile 49 (OHIP-49). The OHIP-49 was completed by 145 consecutive prosthodontic patients. For each OHIP item, subjects completed the standard ordinal response format (with responses given as never, hardly ever, occasionally, often, or very often, and scored from 0 to 4, respectively).