title: The teaching of all-ceramic restorations in Scandinavian dental schools: a survey.
abstract: The study was designed to survey the curricular requirements, types of clinical experience, and materials/ techniques used in teaching programs for all-ceramic restorations in Scandinavian dental schools. All 13 dental schools responded. Ten offered some clinical experience to pre-doctoral students, but only one required one all-ceramic restoration. The departments of fixed prosthodontics had the main teaching responsibility. All-ceramic crowns were taught at 9, veneers at 7, and inlays/onlays at 10 dental schools. A wide range of different teaching concepts, materials, and views on indications and contraindications was reported. It appears as if all-ceramic restorations are regarded as experimental by the teaching institutions, although the dental industry and some practitioners strongly recommend these types of restorations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthetic Dentistry and Stomatognathic Physiology, Dental Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jokstad
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Mjör
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Frazier
mesh_terms: D002516:Ceramics; D000075202:Contraindications; D003479:Curriculum; D003764:Dental Materials; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D003801:Dental Veneers; D003814:Dentistry, Operative / Q000193:education; D004497:Education, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007284:Inlays; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000193:education; D012537:Scandinavian and Nordic Countries; D012575:Schools, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D013664:Teaching Materials
chemical_list: D003764:Dental Materials