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For additional background information on evidence-based health care and its methodologies, you may want to also refer to HealthWeb: Evidence-Based Health Care.

Articles & Journals

• Beyers, Richard M. Evidence-Based Dentistry: A General Practitioner¹s Perspective. J Can Dent Assoc 1999; 65:620-2
• Current Topics in Dentistry: Evidence-Based Dentistry: What is it and what does it have to do with practice? Quintessence International 29(12) December 1998.
  • I. Evidence-based dentistry - Anecdote vs Data‹A Case for Evidence-based Decision Making, J. W. Robbins
  • II. Evidence-based dentistry - It Works in My Hands. Why Isn't That Good Enough?, P. Neilson.
  • III. Evidence-based dentistry - The Relevance of Evidence, M. Grace
  • IV. Evidence-based dentistry - Assessing Risk Improves Predictability of Treatment Outcomes, M. G. Newman
  • V. Evidence-based dentistry - The Methods of Evidence-Based Dentistry, R. Neiderman
• Grace, Mike. NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence). BDJ 186(10) 5-05-1999.
• Monaghan N. Human nature and clinical freedom, barriers to evidence-based practice? BDJ 186(5), 10-04-1999. PDF file (56K).
• Needleman, Ian. CONSORT. BDJ (British Dental Journal) 186(5) 1999. PDF file (36K).
  Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) is an attempt to improve the reporting of randomised clinical trials. It has implications for the management and reporting of clinical trial information in dentistry.

Evidence-Based Dentistry, a journal edited by Derek Richards and available through a collaboration of the British Dental Journal and Nature Science Publishing. Some fulltext articles available online.

Resources & Guidelines

• Prevention Guidelines Information
  
• Dental Diseases - General Dental Information
  
• Clinical Laboratory Improvement
  
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
  
• Nitrous Oxide
  
• Oral Cancer
  
  • Preventing and Controlling Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer: Recommendations from a National Strategic Planning Conference. MMWR 47(RR14); Publication date: 08/28/1998
• Oral Health Medicine
  
• PATCH (Planned Approach to Community Health)
  
• Smokeless Tobacco (Oral Implications)
  
• Smoking/Smokeless Tobacco (Oral Implications)
  
• Tobacco Smoke
  

Canadian Consensus Conference On the Appropriate Use Of Fluoride Supplements For the Prevention Of Dental Caries In Children
By Hardy Limeback; Amid Ismail; David Banting; Pamela DenBesten; John Featherstone; Paul J. Riordan. Originally published in the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association.

Guidance on the Removal of Wisdom Teeth
Issued by the National Center for Clinical Excellence, UK.

Guided tissue regeneration for periodontal infra-bony defects [protocol] / Needleman IG, Giedrys-Leeper E, Tucker RJ. From the Cochrane Library: Oral Health Group.

Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry in Oxford
Includes links to a variety of evidence-based and dental tools and resources.

Evidence-Based Dentistry Journal
Table of Contents, Resources and selected links are available from this journal. Published as a supplement of the British Dental Journal.

Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales Home Page
This site includes a significant section on Oral Health, with sections reviewing tooth decay, periodontal diseases, dentofacial anomalies, oral cancer, temporomandibular joint disorders, complex facial pain, and injuries. Of special interest is the inclusion of the guidelines along with the original protocol statements.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
The NGC is depository of clinical guidelines from a variety of organizations and agencies. It includes over 20 relevant guidelines under the heading "Stomatognathic Diseases." Topics include caries, dental implants, gingivitis, mucogingival conditions, peridontitis, pharyngitis, supportive periodontal treatment, temporomandibular joint disorders, xerostomia, and more.

National Health Service Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (United Kingdom).
This very helpful site based at the University of York includes the fulltext to their publications, Effectiveness Matters and Effective Health Care, as well overall completed reviews on selected topics. Resources of general interest as well as those specifically dental topics within these publications include the following.

• Effective Health Care
  • Getting Evidence Into Practice, February 1999, v. 5(1).
  • Dental Restoration: What Type of Filling?, April 1999, v. 5(2).
  • Preventing the uptake of smoking in young people, October 1999, v. 5(5).
• Effectiveness Matters
  • Smoking Cessation: What the Health Service Can Do, March 1998, v. 3(1).
  • Prophylactic Removal of Impacted Third Molars: is it Justified?, October 1998, v. 3(2).
• Fluoridation of Drinking Water: a Systematic Review of its Efficacy and Safety

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