Accuracy of full-guided vs. pilot-guided implant insertion - A prospective laboratory study in fifth-year dental students.

Background: Education of undergraduates in implant dentistry has been extended. In order to assess the correct implant position, the accuracy of implant insertion using templates for pilot-drill guided and full-guided implant insertion was examined in a laboratory set-up in a cohort of undergraduates.

Methods: After three-dimensional planning of the implant position in partially edentulous mandibular models, individual templates for the pilot-drill guided or full-guided implant insertion in the region of the first premolar were produced.

Harmonisation of Dental Education in Europe - a survey about 15 years after visitation of dental schools participating in the DentEd project.

Introduction: The DentEd Thematic Networks (TNP) were funded from the EU to converge and harmonise the dental curricula. Forty-four dental schools participated in this visitation process between 1998 and 2002. The aim of the survey was to evaluate the implementation of the Dented outcomes in the curricula and if the concept of core competences are integrated in the curriculum.

Combining wrist age and third molars in forensic age estimation: how to calculate the joint age estimate and its error rate in age diagnostics.

Background: Forensic age estimation in living adolescents is based on several methods, e.g. the assessment of skeletal and dental maturation.

Bone density of the midpalatal suture 7 months after surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion in adults.

Introduction: The aims of this study were to analyze changes in bone density of the midpalatal suture after surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion (SARPE) with the bone-borne Dresden Distractor (DD; ITU, Dresden, Germany) via computed tomography (CT) and to compare of preoperative surgical findings with a control group.

Methods: Sixteen adult patients (mean age 24.5 years) underwent axial CT scans before and 7 months after SARPE.

Shear bond strength after multiple bracket bonding with or without repeated etching.

The purpose of the study was to measure the in vitro shear bond strength (SBS) of metal brackets after multiple bonding and debonding with and without repeated etching. One hundred and twenty extracted premolars were divided into three equal groups. In group 1, the brackets were bonded and debonded three times with repeated enamel etching and in groups 2 and 3 without repeated etching.