The risk-based medical model instead of a wholesale surgical approach is steadily percolating into undergraduate dentistry programs across the U.S., according to a recent survey (Journal of Dental ...

Risk-Assessment Tool Aids Dental Caries Prevention An oral health screening tool helps identify children that need dental interventions during routine primary care visits. Instituting an ...

Dental practitioners in solo and small group practices don't widely use periodontal disease risk assessment tools even though they say they're open to using them, according to a new study. Researchers ...

This retrospective cohort study collected data from electronic patient records at the student dental clinic of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). The UCSF Committee on Human Research ...

Several years ago, Peter Rechmann, DMD, PhD, professor of Preventive & Restorative Dental Science at UC San Francisco’s School of Dentistry, saw a patient who was convinced that she needed a new set ...

A new study published in The Journal of the American Dental Association found an association between e-cigarette use or vaping and dental caries risk. Study: A comparison of the caries risk between ...

Background: Consensus guidelines support non-operative preventives for dental caries management; yet, their use in practice is far from universal. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ...