Treatment trends during a thirteen-year period in a student pediatric dentistry clinic.
This manuscript reports the treatment trends in a pediatric dentistry clinic from 1980 to 1992 and discusses their implication in clinical teaching. Analysis of the records of the senior year pediatric dentistry students indicated: no significant change with time in the patients/student ratio, the number of preformed crowns, pulpotomies, and pulpectomies by student or by patient; a significant decrease in the number of one-surface and > or = 2-surface restorations by student and by patient; a significant increase in the number of pit-and-fissure sealants and preventive resin restorations by student and by patient. During the thirteen-year period, the students performed an average of 7.3 one-surface; 12.9 > or = 2-surface restorations; 5.5 preformed crowns; 6.4 pit-and-fissure sealants; 2.4 pulpotomies. There was a significant increase with time in the number of students who performed pit-and-fissure sealants.
Bimstein
E
E
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
Eidelman
E
E
D002648:Child; D003442:Crowns / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D003479:Curriculum / Q000639:trends; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D003740:Dental Clinics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D010361:Patients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends; D010895:Pit and Fissure Sealants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011670:Pulpectomy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D011672:Pulpotomy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D012117:Resins, Synthetic; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D014082:Tooth Fractures / Q000628:therapy
D010895:Pit and Fissure Sealants; D012117:Resins, Synthetic