A comparison between a new 2-dimensional digital on-screen tooth measurement method with direct measurements.

Objective: To compare the accuracy and reproducibility of tooth measurements using newly developed software that gives 2-dimensional scanned images of dental setups with direct measurements using digital calipers.

Methods: This experimental study was performed at the Dental Laboratories of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan from September 2010 to December 2010. Ten sets of acrylic teeth (10 upper and 10 lower arches) were used.

Burnout among the clinical dental students in the jordanian universities.

Background: The study aimed to evaluate the level of burnout among the clinical dental students in two Jordanian universities.

Methods: A total of 307 students from the two schools were surveyed using Maslach Burnout Inventory survey. Scores for the inventory's subscales were calculated and the mean values for the students' groups were computed separately.

Application of Pont's Index to a Jordanian population.

The aim of this study was to assess the applicability of Pont's Index to a Jordanian population and to compare the results with those obtained from studies of different ethnic subjects. Dental casts of 144 Jordanians (71 males and 73 females; mean age, 15.5 years) with 'normal' occlusions were selected from the records of a random stratified sample of 383 Jordanian schoolchildren in the 10th grade.