title: Effect of a Simulation Exercise on Restorative Identification Skills of First Year Dental Hygiene Students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study explored the effectiveness of simulated mouth models to improve identification and recording of dental restorations when compared to using traditional didactic instruction combined with 2-dimensional images. Simulation has been adopted into medical and dental education curriculum to improve both student learning and patient safety outcomes.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 2-sample, independent t-test analysis of data was conducted to compare graded dental recordings of dental hygiene students using simulated mouth models and dental hygiene students using 2-dimensional photographs. Evaluations from graded dental charts were analyzed and compared between groups of students using the simulated mouth models containing random placement of custom preventive and restorative materials and traditional 2-dimensional representations of didactically described conditions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results demonstrated a statistically significant (p≤0.0001) difference: for experimental group, students using the simulated mouth models to identify and record dental conditions had a mean of 86.73 and variance of 33.84. The control group students using traditional 2-dimensional images mean graded dental chart scores were 74.43 and variance was 14.25.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Using modified simulation technology for dental charting identification may increase level of dental charting skill competency in first year dental hygiene students.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lemaster
authors.forename: Joyce M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Flores
authors.forename: Margaret S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Blacketer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods; D003479:Curriculum; D003756:Dental Hygienists / Q000193:education*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D000066908:Simulation Training / Q000379:methods*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: dental; dental hygiene; dental materials; identification; pre-clinical; restorative; simulation; theoretical frameworks