Dentist and patient; Dentistry--Practice; Smoking cessation; Nicotine addiction--Treatment
Dentists can play a key role in helping patients quit tobacco use by providing tobacco cessation treatment (TCT) in their practice. Although the majority of dentists receive training in TCT, most do not provide adequate intervention. Many feel they...
Dentists--Attitudes; Endodontics--Study and teaching; Medical referral
The decision by a general dentist to treat or refer a patient needing endodontic therapy may be based on multiple variables. Students attending dental schools with endodontic specialty programs could be exposed to a referral system with endodontic...
Background: Dental caries is the most common childhood ailment and one of the most prevalent chronic diseases of people worldwide. Approximately 91% of dentate adults 20 years or older have experienced dental caries. Carious lesions on proximal...
Corner of a stone building at 415 West Chestnut on the south side. The sign above the door reads Doctors Entrance. Signs on either side of the door and in the window advertise doctors and dentists.
University of Louisville. School of Dentistry; Dental education; University of Louisville--Students
Two rows of dental stations at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. Patients sit in most of the chairs and dentists or dental students in lab coats stand at the stations. Written on back of photograph: Prostho. Dept. - Photo by Dr....