Effectiveness of face-to-face, blended and e-learning in teaching the application of local anaesthesia: a randomised study.

Background: Local anaesthesia plays a key role in many aspects of a dentist's work. The required skills to perform anaesthesia successfully are acquired at university. To take advantage of the possibilities for new teaching formats, a blended learning concept for the local anaesthesia course was developed.

Blended learning modules for lectures on oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Over the last couple of years, new teaching methods have been developed and implemented in German universities, but only rarely in dental schools. The aim of this project therefore was to implement students' requests for such methods to be used in dental education. In 2012, based on an analysis of both quantitative and qualitative requirements, we designed a questionnaire for quantitative analysis, and evaluated a series of lectures on oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Anatomy meets dentistry! Linking anatomy and clinical practice in the preclinical dental curriculum.

Background: Establishing a strong link early on between preclinical coursework and the clinical context is necessary for students to be able to recognize the practical relevance of the curriculum during their preclinical anatomical courses and to transfer knowledge more easily. Our objective was to enhance the clinical relevance of a preclinical anatomy course for second-year medical students of dentistry by implementing an interdisciplinary skills training course on "Palpation of the Head and Neck Muscles" and to measure the learning outcomes.

Methods: For the curricular development of the expanded course module, Kern's 6-step approach was applied including subjective evaluation.

Three-unit CAD/CAM-generated lithium disilicate FDPs after a mean observation time of 46 months.

Objectives: Lithium disilicate can easily be machined by CAM techniques in its metasilicate status. Due to slightly inferior material properties, the material is not yet recommended for three-unit fixed dental prosthesis (FDP) as it is the case for the press material up to the second bicuspid. Therefore, the aim of this clinical study was to evaluate the performance of CAD/CAM-fabricated lithium disilicate FDPs.

Clinical results of lithium-disilicate crowns after up to 9 years of service.

Objectives: The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate the clinical outcome of anterior and posterior crowns made of a lithium-disilicate glass-ceramic framework material (IPS e.max Press, Ivoclar Vivadent).

Materials And Methods: A total of 104 single crowns were placed in 41 patients (mean age, 34 ± 9.