Impact of Guidance and Multitasking on Manual Dexterity Skills in Dentistry.

Objectives:  This study investigated the effect of learning by observation on the development of fine motor skills related to endodontic manual instrumentation. We evaluated if learning by observation with guidance had any influence upon operator performance under tense or taxing conditions.

Materials And Methods:  Dental students prepared standardized simulated root canals of varying morphology.

Understanding Motor Skill Learning as Related to Dentistry.

Learning dental procedures is a complex task involving the development of fine motor skills. The reported use of theories and/or evidence for designing learning activities to develop the fine motor skills needed for dental practice is limited. The aim of this review is to explore the available body of knowledge related to learning motor skills relevant to dentistry.

How to Improve Fine Motor Skill Learning in Dentistry.

Introduction: Restorative dental treatment is a complex task involving various procedures which require the development and integration of both theoretical knowledge and fine motor skills. It aims to provide the theoretical background and role of key factors in learning these skills.

Materials And Methods: The following electronic databases were searched to identify relevant articles to our topic: PubMed, Medline, Google Scholar, and Scopus.

Effect of errorless learning on the acquisition of fine motor skills in pre-clinical endodontics.

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of errorless and errorful learning, on acquisition of root canal hand-instrumentation skills. Dental students prepared standardised canals of different diameters and curvatures. Learning involved minimising (errorless: n = 21) or maximising errors (errorful: n = 21).

Investigating an errorless learning approach for developing dental operative technique skills: A pilot study.

Introduction: Explicit instruction (conscious knowledge/rules) is generally used for learning dental operative skills; however, recent work has demonstrated advantages of learning skills implicitly with minimal accrual of conscious knowledge and reduced attentional demands. Therefore, this study examined the effects of learning handpiece manipulation skills explicitly (errorful) and implicitly (errorless: limited error detection/correction) under conditions of increased attentional demands (ie multitasking and additional instructions).

Materials And Methods: Non-dental university students were randomly assigned to errorless (n = 11) or errorful (n = 8) groups.