title: Are there guidelines for reporting clinical research findings in oral lectures and seminars in dental meetings?
abstract: Dental meetings are one of the most important resources for disseminating knowledge to dental practitioners. Therefore, the information provided in such meetings should be as unbiased as possible. This paper assessed whether major general dentistry and periodontology/implant dentistry meetings have guidelines for reporting scientific evidence in oral lectures and seminars. The homepages of seven dental meetings (EUROPERIO, AAP, EAO, AO, IADR, ADA, and FDI) were assessed to check for guidelines for presenting scientific data in oral lectures and seminars, according to defined criteria. Only three of these dental meetings reported information for presentations on their homepages, although these guidelines were related to technical issues rather than recommendations for the presentation of scientific data. The present paper suggests guidelines for reporting scientific evidence in oral lectures and seminars in dental meetings to improve the current standards of reporting. High standards of reporting may provide less biased information, which is necessary for dental practitioners and clinicians to make accurate judgements on the efficacy/effectiveness of therapies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Sciences, University of Otago, 310 great King Street, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand. clovisfaggion@yahoo.com
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Faggion
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003757:Dental Implantation; D018865:Dental Research / Q000592:standards; D055094:Evidence-Based Dentistry; D005792:General Practice, Dental; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D010517:Periodontics; D012107:Research Design; D012953:Societies, Dental; D014342:Truth Disclosure