Evidence-based care of musculoskeletal facial pain: implications for the clinical science of dentistry.
The authors assert that advancement of dentistry as a clinical science has been hampered by a failure to practice evidence-based care, which incorporates principles derived from clinical epidemiology. The schism between the cultures of researcher and practitioner was most evident at a recent National Institutes of Health Technology Assessment Conference on the Management of Temporomandibular Disorders.
Raphael
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Departent of Psychiatry, New Jersey Medical School, USA.
Marbach
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D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D013705:Temporomandibular Joint Disorders / Q000628:therapy*