A survey on tooth caries at 5 primary schools of Hoa Binh province was performed. The prevalence of caries of 61.75% was concluded for milk teeth, 31.78% for permanent teeth. There were 2.4 teeth of caries for each school child. In minority ethnic children, this prevalence was higher than in Kinh ethnic children, this was related to the living habits and the tooth brushing practice.
Dental Caries ; Schools ; Epidemiology

PURPOSE: Prosthodontics education of Korean dental schools is developing under liberal regulation according to the character of each school. Diversity in the current environment and condition for each school make it impossible to apply the same and uniform education curriculum. Therefore the purpose of this paper is to analyze and validate the status of the 2012 prosthodontics education curriculum in Korean dental schools, and to suggest future direction. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A survey was completed by all the 11 dental schools in South Korea. RESULTS: The number of students, age, sex, credits for prosthodontics lecture and practice courses, evaluation method before senior students' clinical practice, modalities for minimum requirement for graduation, beginning and finishing timing of clinical practice and faculty personnel involved in the education varied among the dental schools. CONCLUSION: High-quality educators leading an expanded teaching personnel are required, education hours must be increased and efficient curriculum must be organized to improve the prosthodontics education.
Curriculum ; Humans ; Prosthodontics ; Schools, Dental

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to develop and verify an instrument to measure the satisfaction rate of dental school environment. In order to develop such tool a pretest and precedent study of records was carried along with the student group discussion. This was to enhance the application of the measurement to in practise. METHODS: The sub scales was developed to measure the satisfaction rate of the dental school environment and the item goodness of the tool was verified through reliability and factor analysis. RESULTS: The instrument develop had measurement validity and when applied in practise it proved to be an instrument that can measure the dental school environment specifically and distinctively. CONCLUSION: The information given by the analysis of dental school environment in sub scales can be in practical use as the substantial evidence to diagnose the feature of relevant field, understand its problem and take a proper reform measure.
Humans ; Schools, Dental* ; Weights and Measures

Eight dental schools were founded by Chinese dentists during modern times (1909-1949) in China, but only one of them still works. This article analyzes the establishment processes, faculty and student trainings in some of these dental schools, combining with the social background and management system at that time, to explore the difficulties encountered by Chinese dentists in founding dental schools before 1949.
Humans ; Schools, Dental ; China ; Dentists

Peer instruction is one of the best recognized teaching methods in the world. In this study, we aim to discuss the necessity and feasibility of applying peer instruction to the current dental school education with respect to the specialty features of stomatology in China. We also propose a new paradigm of teaching based on peer instruction for the development of a more effective system to train elite dentists and meet the increasing needs of the society for oral health.
Education, Dental ; Humans ; Oral Medicine ; Schools, Dental

The program of SCDC has been organised at all 25 primary and secondary schools of Gia Loc district during 1989-1990 to prevent dental caries for children aged 6-15. The program’s activities include dental health education, conducting children to rinse their mouth by fluoride water 0.2% weekly and clinical preventation. After 8 years, the situation of dental caries reduced. At age of 12, the ratio of dental caries reduced 56.05% and DMFT reduced 79.41%. This result confirms that the contents of SCDC are suitable. Especially the situation of dental health shows that in 1997-1998 we reached WHO global goals and Vietnam goals for the year of 2010.
Schools, Dental ; Delivery of Health Care ; DMF Index

Collecting, managing and processing course material requires of much costs and efforts while they include a variety of data types particularly in the health field. Some engineering work on the material may help reduce the workload and costs to some extent. With such benefits having in mind, this paper tries to develop multimedial database for the course material of Oral Pathology in dental schools. It provides structured analysis of data for the course material, in which a unit of disease is a central class with relation to many other classes. It also achieved data independence from server applications by using the method concept of object-oriented database(OODB), which will increase reusability of the course data. Using another important concept of OODB, the system devised many functional utilities on an Internet web server including lecture notes, case studies, disease search, and question and answer, and shows how they are operated. But the effectiveness for the part of student users may remain to be evaluated.
Humans ; Internet ; Learning* ; Pathology, Oral* ; Schools, Dental

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to propose criteria for evaluating the validity of dental education systems in Korea and suggest future directions for their improvement. METHODS: We looked into dental educational institutions and derived criteria for analysis and comparison of dental education systems in Korea. Using analytical methods, we compared the strengths and weaknesses of each education system, and suggested core areas of improvement. RESULTS: Considering the demands placed on the Korean dental education sector, it is desirable to have an integrated education system that includes the preliminary and main courses, comprehensive training linking the basic medicine and clinical practice, and complete career guidance. CONCLUSIONS: A good dental education system is one that meets the educational goals set by a dental school. If the goal is to train a student to be a good dental practitioner, a 2+4 or 4+4 system is recommended, while a 3+4 model is more suitable when the objective is to train students to be researchers.
Education ; Education, Continuing ; Education, Dental ; Humans ; Korea ; Schools, Dental

The purpose of this study was to evaluated the diagnostic performance of the senior dental students for the proximal dental caries in intraoral radiographs and to compare it with the dental hospital residents, the reference group. It was also investigated the diagnostic performance according to the carious lesion depth. Thirty-five intraoral periapical and bitewing radiographs with 213 proximal surface included in this study were selected from the dental patients at Chonnam National University Hospital. The observers were 181 senior dental students from 5 dental schools and 40 dentists who were second year resident from 5 dental hospitals. They were asked to evaluate the presence ro the absence of the proximal dental caries. The results were as follows : 1. The mean of the hitting rate for the overall observers was 184.51 surfaces and the diagnostic accuracy was 86.62%. 2. The diagnostic performance of the sound proximal tooth surfaces was very high, i.e., 91.5% true negative rate and 8.5% false positive rate. 3. The diagnostic performance of the dentist group was higher than the student group(P<0.05). 4. The proximal dental caries perceptibility increased as the lesion depth increased significantly(P<0.001) except no difference between the carious lesion depth iii and iv>0.001).
Dental Caries* ; Dentists ; Humans ; Jeollanam-do ; Schools, Dental ; Students, Dental ; Tooth

PURPOSE: This study was conducted to suggest the development of a learning management system for dental radiology education using the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Moodle is a well-known and verified open-source software-learning management system (OSS-LMS). The Moodle software was installed on a server computer and customized for dental radiology education. The system was implemented for teaching undergraduate students to diagnose dental caries in panoramic images. Questions were chosen that could assess students' diagnosis ability. Students were given several questions corre-sponding to each of 100 panoramic images. RESULTS: The installation and customization of Moodle was feasible, cost-effective, and time-saving. By having students answer questions repeatedly, it was possible to train them to examine panoramic images sequentially and thoroughly. CONCLUSION: Based on its educational efficiency and efficacy, the adaptation of an OSS-LMS in dental school may be highly recommended. The system could be extended to continuing education for dentists. Further studies on the objective evaluation of knowledge acquisition and retention are needed.
Computer-Assisted Instruction ; Dental Caries ; Dentists ; Diagnosis ; Education* ; Education, Continuing ; Education, Dental ; Humans ; Learning* ; Schools, Dental