Prospective clinical evaluation of 765 partial glass-ceramic posterior restorations luted using photo-polymerized resin composite in conjunction with immediate dentin sealing.

Objectives: To evaluate the clinical performance of partial glass-ceramic (IPS e.max Press) posterior restorations.

Materials And Methods: A total of 765 restorations in 158 patients were placed between 2008 and 2018 and evaluated in a prospective study during regular dental care visits between 2015 and 2018.

Digital assessment of a retentive full crown preparation-An evaluation of prepCheck in an undergraduate pre-clinical teaching environment.

Introduction: Acquiring practical skills is essential for dental students. These practical skills are assessed throughout their training, both formatively and summatively. However, by means of visual inspection alone, assessment cannot always be performed objectively.

Shear bond strength of two composite resin cements to multiphase composite resin after different surface treatments and two glass-ceramics.

Aim: To compare the shear bond strength (SBS) after aging of two dual-curing composite resin cements to multiphase composite resin (experiment) and glass-ceramics (control).

Methods: Seventy computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) blocks were prepared: 24 multiphase composite resin blocks (Lava Ultimate; experiment), and 12 control blocks (groups 5 and 6: 6 IPS e.max CAD, 6 IPS Empress CAD).

Comparison of level of cognitive process between case-based items and non-case-based items of the interuniversity progress test of medicine in the Netherlands.

Purpose: It is assumed that case-based questions require higher order cognitive processing, whereas questions that are not case-based require lower order cognitive processing. In this study, we investigated to what extent case-based questions and questions that are not case-based, relate to Bloom's taxonomy.

Methods: In this article, 4800 questions of the Progress Test were classified whether it was a case-based question and the level of Bloom's taxonomy.

Autotransplantation of teeth with incomplete root formation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the rates of survival and success and the complications related to autotransplantation of teeth with incomplete root formation. Additionally, we attempted to identify the prognostic factors that influence the outcome of tooth autotransplantation.

Materials And Methods: A literature search for all data published until July 2016 was conducted.

Effect of immediate dentine sealing on the fracture strength of lithium disilicate and multiphase resin composite inlay restorations.

Purpose: Limited information is available on the effect of Immediate Dentin Sealing (IDS) on the fracture strength of indirect partial posterior restorations. This study evaluated the effect of IDS on the fracture strength and failure types of two indirect restorative materials.

Materials And Methods: Standard MOD inlay preparations were made on sound molars (N=40, n=10 per group) and randomly divided into four groups to receive the inlay materials with and without the application of IDS: Group L-IDS-: LiSiO (Lithium disilicate, IPS e.

Influence of feedback characteristics on perceived learning value of feedback in clerkships: does culture matter?

Background: Various feedback characteristics have been suggested to positively influence student learning. It is not clear how these feedback characteristics contribute to students' perceived learning value of feedback in cultures classified low on the cultural dimension of individualism and high on power distance. This study was conducted to validate the influence of five feedback characteristics on students' perceived learning value of feedback in an Indonesian clerkship context.

Implant-supported mandibular removable partial dentures: Functional, clinical and radiographical parameters in relation to implant position.

Background: Patients with a Kennedy class I situation often encounter problems with their removable partial denture (RPD).

Purpose: To assess the functional benefits of implant support to RPDs, the clinical performance of the implants and teeth and to determine the most favorable implant position: the premolar (PM) or molar (M) region.

Materials And Methods: Thirty subjects received 2 PM and 2 M implants.

Development of cognitive processing and judgments of knowledge in medical students: Analysis of progress test results.

Background: Beside acquiring knowledge, medical students should also develop the ability to apply and reflect on it, requiring higher-order cognitive processing. Ideally, students should have reached higher-order cognitive processing when they enter the clinical program. Whether this is the case, is unknown.

Implant-supported mandibular removable partial dentures; patient-based outcome measures in relation to implant position.

Objectives: To assess the benefits of implant support to Removable Partial Dentures (RPD) in patients with a bilateral free-ending situation in the mandible and to determine the most favorable implant position: the premolar (PM) or the molar (M) region.

Methods: Thirty subjects with a bilateral unbounded posterior saddle received 2 PM and 2M implants. A new RPD was placed.

Stock Versus CAD/CAM Customized Zirconia Implant Abutments - Clinical and Patient-Based Outcomes in a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

Background: Single-tooth replacement often requires a prefabricated dental implant and a customized crown. The benefits of individualization of the abutment remain unclear.

Purpose: This randomized controlled clinical trial aims to study potential benefits of individualization of zirconia implant abutments with respect to preservation of marginal bone level and several clinical and patient-based outcome measures.

Treatment comfort, time perception, and preference for conventional and digital impression techniques: A comparative study in young patients.

Introduction: The aim of this crossover study was to assess perceptions and preferences for impression techniques in young orthodontic patients receiving alginate and 2 different digital impressions.

Methods: Thirty-eight subjects aged 10 to 17 years requiring impressions for orthodontic treatment were randomly allocated to 3 groups that differed in the order that an alginate impressions and 2 different intraoral scanning procedures were administered. After each procedure, the patients were asked to score their perceptions on a 5-point Likert scale for gag reflex, queasiness, difficulty to breathe, uncomfortable feeling, perception of the scanning time, state of anxiety, and use of a powder, and to select the preferred impression system.

Implant-supported removable partial dentures in the mandible: A 3-16 year retrospective study.

Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess performance, together with biological and technical complications, of implant-supported removable partial dentures (ISRPD) in mandibular Kennedy class I situations with implants placed in the anterior or posterior position.

Methods: 23 subjects with two endosseous implants to support a bilateral-free-ending mandibular removable denture were examined. Eight subjects had implants in the premolar (anterior) region and 15 subjects implants in the molar (posterior) region.

Radiographic technique and brackets affect measurements of proximal enamel thickness on mandibular incisors.

Objective: To investigate the influence of radiographic film and tube positioning, the presence and the size of brackets on in vitro measurements of proximal enamel thickness of mandibular incisors on periapical radiographs aimed to aid planning of interproximal enamel reduction procedures in orthodontics.

Materials And Methods: Eighty human mandibular incisors were assigned to sets of four and located in a customized base. Periapical radiographs were taken with the film positioned at three different angles (0°, 2°, and 5°) in relation to the frontal plane and the tube head positioned at five angles (0°, -2°, -5°, +2°, and +5°) in relation to the sagittal plane.

Cumulative versus end-of-course assessment: effects on self-study time and test performance.

Context: Students tend to postpone preparation for a test until the test is imminent, which raises various risks associated with 'cramming' behaviours, including that for suboptimal learning. Cumulative assessment utilises spaced testing to stimulate students to study more frequently and to prevent procrastination. This randomised controlled study investigated how cumulative assessment affects time spent on self-study and test performance compared with end-of-course assessment.

Digital versus analog complete-arch impressions for single-unit premolar implant crowns: Operating time and patient preference.

Statement Of Problem: Digital impression-making techniques are supposedly more patient friendly and less time-consuming than analog techniques, but evidence is lacking to substantiate this assumption.

Purpose: The purpose of this in vivo within-subject comparison study was to examine patient perception and time consumption for 2 complete-arch impression-making methods: a digital and an analog technique.

Material And Methods: Fifty participants with a single missing premolar were included.

Papillary fill response in single-tooth implants using abutments of different geometry.

Objective: To evaluate the influence of abutment geometry on papillary fill in the esthetic zone in a delayed crown protocol.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-six subjects received two non-adjacent endosseous implants in the esthetic zone. Functional temporary crowns were installed 17-19 weeks later, using conventional (control) and curved (experimental) abutments.

Cumulative assessment: strategic choices to influence students' study effort.

Background: It has been asserted that assessment can and should be used to drive students' learning. In the current study, we present a cumulative assessment program in which test planning, repeated testing and compensation are combined in order to influence study effort. The program is aimed at helping initially low-scoring students improve their performance during a module, without impairing initially high-scoring students' performance.

The effect of implementing undergraduate competency-based medical education on students' knowledge acquisition, clinical performance and perceived preparedness for practice: a comparative study.

Background: Little is known about the gains and losses associated with the implementation of undergraduate competency-based medical education. Therefore, we compared knowledge acquisition, clinical performance and perceived preparedness for practice of students from a competency-based active learning (CBAL) curriculum and a prior active learning (AL) curriculum.

Methods: We included two cohorts of both the AL curriculum (n=453) and the CBAL curriculum (n=372).