ChatGPT for parents' education about early childhood caries: A friend or foe?

Background: With the increasing popularity of online sources for health information, parents may seek information related to early childhood caries (ECC) from artificial intelligence-based chatbots.

Aim: The aim of this article was to evaluate the usefulness, quality, reliability, and readability of ChatGPT answers to parents' questions about ECC.

Design: Eighty questions commonly asked about ECC were compiled from experts and keyword research tools.

Dental Student Perspectives of a Comprehensive-Based Teaching Methodology: A Confidence, Effectiveness, and Challenge Report.

/. The holistic methodology in education has been widely appreciated and implicated in dental schools in the last decade. Our department of conservative dentistry decided to reform the educational model of teaching from a traditional requirement-based model to a hybrid model incorporating comprehensive care treatment.

Dental trauma in social media-Analysis of Facebook content and public engagement.

Background/aim: Social media sites such as Facebook are increasingly used to obtain healthcare-related information. The aim of this study was to examine Facebook content on dental trauma and to assess public engagement with this content.

Materials And Methods: An anonymous account was created to search Facebook for information on dental trauma using the key words "dental trauma," "broken tooth," "tooth fracture," and "tooth trauma" over a period of 1 year (from February 27, 2017, to February 27, 2018).

Undergraduate experience and self-assessed confidence in paediatric dentistry at the University of Jordan Dental School.

Introduction: The aims of the study were to audit the number and types of clinical procedures completed by the undergraduate dental students in the paediatric dentistry course at the University of Jordan Dental School and to present data on self-reported confidence in a variety of aspects of paediatric dentistry.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective audit of clinical logbooks for the entire class of 120 dental students in their fifth clinical year was performed. Key clinical procedures performed in the paediatric clinics were recorded including treatment performed on both primary and permanent teeth.

A longitudinal study of psychological stress among undergraduate dental students at the University of Jordan.

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify whether psychological stress increased as undergraduate dental students progressed through their studies from first to fifth year. Another objective was to determine if the perceived sources of stress have changed along the years.

Methods: To achieve these aims, a cohort of students at the University of Jordan were followed from first to fifth year of dental school.