title: Accessing the best available evidence.
abstract: This narrative review aims to highlight sources of the best available evidence and describe primary clinical trials currently taking place in primary dental care across the United Kingdom which will add to the evidence base.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To provide evidence-based dental care, dental professionals have to integrate the best available evidence, their clinical experience and their patients' values; this paper should help to identify user-friendly sources of the best available evidence.
authors: University of Dundee, Dental Health Services Research Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee Dental Hospital and School, Park Place, Dundee DD1 4HN.
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Lamont
authors: Alexander
authors: A
authors: Keightley
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: Clarkson
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003657:Decision Making; D003729:Dental Care; D048048:Dental Informatics; D018865:Dental Research; D055094:Evidence-Based Dentistry; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012196:Review Literature as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom