Monday 10 September 2007

BDent1 - Finding the Best Evidence

This morning saw the beginning of the annual 1st year Dentistry "Finding the Best Evidence" evidence-based dentistry literature searching tutorials. As a result of this tutorial students will know how to:

  • Formulate a searchable question using PICO
  • Find a systematic review in Ovid's Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews & Medline
  • Retrieve primary studies using the Ovid Medline Clinical Queries Filters
You can view the embedded presentation below or download it in PDF Format.

Tuesday 4 September 2007

New Publications by University of Sydney Faculty of Dentistry Staff and Students

The following papers have been added to PubMed in the last 30 days:

Bhutada, MK, Phanachet, I, Whittle, T, Peck, CC & Murray, GM 2007, 'Activity of superior head of human lateral pterygoid increases with increases in contralateral and protrusive jaw displacement', European Journal of Oral Sciences, vol. 115, no. 4, pp. 257-64.

Bryant, RW & Mahler, DB 2007, 'Volumetric contraction in some tooth-coloured restorative materials', Australian Dental Journal, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 112-7.

Curtis, B, Evans, RW, Sbaraini, A & Schwarz, E 2007, 'Recruitment and standardization of a group of Australian dentists for a multipractice study on dental caries prevention', Australian Dental Journal, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 106-11.

Huang, TT, Jones, AS, He, LH, Darendeliler, MA & Swain, MV 2007, 'Characterisation of enamel white spot lesions using X-ray micro-tomography', Journal of Dentistry, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 737-43.

Rohanizadeh, R, Swain, MV & Mason, RS 2007, 'Gelatin sponges (Gelfoam( (R) )) as a scaffold for osteoblasts', Journal of Materials Science. Materials in Medicine [Epub ahead of print]