INTRODUCTION

Evidence-based dentistry program is the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. 

The American Dental Association (ADA) has defined “evidence-based dentistry” as an approach to oral health care that requires the judicious integration of:

systematic assessments of clinically relevant scientific evidence, relating to the patients oral and medical condition and history,  together with the dentists clinical expertise and the patients treatment needs and preferences

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this program are to prepare the student for teaching, for research, and for the practice of advanced clinical restorative dentistry.  The program is designed to enhance both the breadth and depth of fundamental restorative principles and to correlate the oral sciences with clinical practice based on research evidence. 

Its major objective is the development of teachers and practitioners having broad knowledge and capability in the diagnosis treatment planning, and in the rendering of comprehensive restorative care.

In addition, the graduate student will gain experience in teaching restorative dentistry to undergraduate students in the laboratory and during the clinical sessions. The student will also have the ability to develop a research protocol in a restorative dentistry related problem, conduct the research and report the findings as well as present them in national and international dental conferences.

This course is aimed at ensuring that students attain a high standard of clinical competence in restorative dentistry. At the end of this course, students should be able to: 

1. Manage assigned cases requiring comprehensive restorative work, as approved by the Course Director.
2. Present the finished cases applying evidence base dentistry approach. 
3. Finish a number of cases requiring comprehensive restorative management, as shown in the minimum requirement chart.

CLINICAL REQUIREMENTS

The cases managed should include the  following procedures: 

1. Amalgam/amalgam build-up
2. Direct composite resin restorations: different classes, composite veneers
3. Bleaching
4. Indirect composite resin restorations
5. Glass-ionomer cement restorations: different types
6. Cast gold restorations: single full crowns, inlays onlays
7. Preventive resin restorations, fissure sealants
8. Porcelain fused to metal restorations, porcelain veneers, porcelain onlays
9. Implants (single implant)

 Each student must acquire the following:

1. Digital camera for intra-oral
2. Personal computer (preferably a Laptop) and a printer to write his/her case presentation, seminar, research papers
3. Students will be provided of the following:

• Cubicle
• Dental Assistants
• Instruments
• Materials 

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