As the medical field develops rapidly towards evidence-based, personalized and intelligent care, patient-reported outcomes (PRO) related research is becoming increasingly refined in terms of coverage, precision and practicability. In order to help improve the quality and quantity of patient-centered evidence in dentistry and to further promote the wide and standard use of dental patient-reported outcomes (dPROs) and dental patient-reported outcome measures (dPROMs), the Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice has put together this Special Issue, the fourth of a series entitled Dental Patient-Reported Outcomes Update. A total of 7 solicited articles are included in this issue. To put them into a broader perspective, this review provides a concise summary of key, selected PRO and dPRO articles published during 2024. A brief introduction to those articles included in this Special Issue follows. Four main domains are covered in this Special Issue: (i) dPROs and general health, (ii) standardization of dPRO-related methodology, (iii) methodological considerations in dPRO-related research, and (iv) current usage of dPROs and dPROMs in published research.
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J Evid Based Dent Pract
March 2025
State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Center for Evidence-Based Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Dentofacial Deformities in Children, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Center for Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry at Optics Valley Branch, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Division of Dentistry, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Outcomes, also known as endpoints, are a critical component in clinical research evaluating the effects of healthcare interventions. The validity of a clinical study depends on the appropriate selection and usage of outcomes. Therefore, complete, accurate, and transparent reporting of outcomes is essential for the critical appraisal of a study's methods and findings.
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March 2025
Department of Oral Public Health, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Objective: Dental patient-reported outcomes (dPROs) are critical indicators of shared decision-making in oral healthcare. This study aimed to assess the frequency of use of dPROs and dPRO-related factors being used as predictors or predicted outcomes in clinical prediction models (CPMs) in oral health, and to identify variables associated with the use of dPROs and/or dPRO-related factors in CPMs.
Methods: A PubMed search was conducted on 17th May, 2024, to identify eligible studies.
J Evid Based Dent Pract
March 2025
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Operationalizing the oral health experience is an ongoing effort with various clinical and patient-reported outcomes contributing to such conceptualizations. Computational technology has afforded advances in the ability to model complex interactions between various phenomena and provides an opportunity to reconsider the way oral health is conceptualized. High-dimensional vector space modeling is introduced and discussed as a theoretical way to incorporate all relative features associated with understanding oral health, including clinical, patient-reported, and demographic information.
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March 2025
State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Center for Evidence-Based Stomatology, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Center for Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry at Optics Valley Branch, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Division of Dentistry, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
As the medical field develops rapidly towards evidence-based, personalized and intelligent care, patient-reported outcomes (PRO) related research is becoming increasingly refined in terms of coverage, precision and practicability. In order to help improve the quality and quantity of patient-centered evidence in dentistry and to further promote the wide and standard use of dental patient-reported outcomes (dPROs) and dental patient-reported outcome measures (dPROMs), the Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice has put together this Special Issue, the fourth of a series entitled Dental Patient-Reported Outcomes Update. A total of 7 solicited articles are included in this issue.
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March 2025
School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Electronic address:
Oral health professionals, including general dentists and orthodontists, may participate in the provision of care to adults and children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) when referred by a sleep medicine specialist. The use of oral appliances (OA) has been presented as a possible management option for mild obstructive sleep apnea among adults. In children, although oral interventions are not supported as a first-line stand-alone management option for OSA, short-term studies have suggested an improvement in sleep signs and symptoms in milder cases.
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