Identifying Needs and Preparing for Curriculum Changes in Indian Dental Education.

Unlabelled: The aims of dental professional courses are to prepare dental healthcare providers to manage common dental diseases, perform surgeries, and offer prevention. They should also be equipped to understand the needs of the society they are serving and willing to amend their skills. As they are expected to be a part of a team providing health care, they should have the requisite leadership and managerial skills for leading the team to serve its objectives in the best possible way.

Impact of Implementing Psychological Ownership in Undergraduate Dental Clinical Training: A Retrospective Study.

Purpose: The idea of psychological ownership (PO) has been utilized in a variety of contexts, but the significance and lessons learned from using PO in dental clinical education have not been investigated. A detailed long-term study of PO in dental clinical education will allow us to understand the effectiveness of this practice. The purpose of this paper is to compare undergraduate (UG) student's clinical performance before and after the PO system was implemented.

Prevalence of Dental Fear and Anxiety and Its Triggering Factors in the Dental Office among School-going Children in Al Ahsa.

Aims And Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of dental fear and anxiety (DFA) among school-going children in Al Ahsa.To identify the factors that trigger DFA in the dental office.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted.

Impeded eruption of mandibular canine.

Odontome, tumor of odontogenic origin, is associated with disturbances in the eruption of teeth such as impaction, delayed eruption or retention of permanent teeth. It is seen on radiographic examination as a radiopaque lesion which may be single or multiple. Morphologically, odontomes are of two types-compound or complex and can be found at any age with high prevalence in maxilla than in mandible.