Oral trauma in an urban emergency department.

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the type of traumatic orofacial injuries and the referral pattern seen in children up to 15 years of age who came to the pediatric emergency department at an urban hospital during an 18-month period. The majority of injuries treated, 87% in preschool children and 71% in children ages 6 to 15 years old, were lacerations and/or abrasions. The primary mechanism of injury was falls, accounting for 78% of traumatic orofacial injuries in preschoolers and 47% in children ages 6 to 15 years.

The relationship of performance on the dental admission test and performance on Part I of the National Board Dental Examinations.

Although many schools use scores on the Dental Admission Test (DAT) to evaluate applicants, the association of these scores with students' performance on Part I of the National Board Dental Examinations (NBDE) has not been recently evaluated. In this study, the hypothesis that the DAT scores would be a significant predictor of Part I of the NBDE scores was tested. We analyzed by multiple regression the scores on both examinations for the 114 students matriculating in the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995.