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  • Buccal and palatal alveolar bone dimensions in the anterior maxilla 
    Todorovic, Vladimir S.; Postma, Thomas Corne; Hoffman, Jakobus; Van Zyl, Andre W. (Wiley, 2023-04)
    OBJECTIVE : Anterior maxillary immediate implant placement has become a popular procedure. It has aesthetic and functional risks. A prerequisite for success is sufficient alveolar bone for primary stability. Many cone-beam ...
  • Evaluating and improving the usability of a mHealth platform to assess postoperative dental pain 
    Ibarra Noriega, Ana M.; Yansane, Alfa; Mullins, Joanna; Simmons, Kristen; Skourtes, Nicholas; Holmes, David; White, Joel; Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Walji, Muhammad F. (Oxford University Press, 2024-03)
    OBJECTIVES : The use of interactive mobile health (mHealth) applications to monitor patient-reported postoperative pain outcomes is an emerging area in dentistry that requires further exploration. This study aimed to ...
  • Patient and dentist perspectives on collecting patient reported outcomes after painful dental procedures in the National Dental PBRN 
    Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Tungare, Sayali; Mehta, Urvi; Hamid, Sharmeen; Mungia, Rahma; Yansane, Alfa-Ibrahim; Holmes, David; Funkhouser, Kim; Ibarra-Noriega, Ana M.; Urata, Janelle; Rindal, D. Brad; Spallek, Heiko; White, Joel M.; Walji, Muhammad F. (BMC, 2024-02)
    BACKGROUND : Dental Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) relate to a dental patient’s subjective experience of their oral health. How practitioners and patients value PROs influences their successful use in practice. METHODS ...
  • Translating periodontal data to knowledge in a learning health system 
    Tokede, Bunmi; Yansane, Alfa; White, Joel; Bangar, Suhasini; Mullins, Joanna; Brandon, Ryan; Gantela, Swaroop; Kookal, Krishna; Rindal, Donald; Lee, Chun-Teh; Lin, Guo-Hao; Spallek, Heiko; Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Walji, Muhammad (Elsevier, 2022-10)
    BACKGROUND : A learning health system (LHS) is a health system in which patients and clinicians work together to choose care on the basis of best evidence and to drive discovery as a natural outgrowth of every clinical ...
  • BigMouth : development and maintenance of a successful dental data repository 
    Walji, Muhammad F.; Spallek, Heiko; Kookal, Krishna Kumar; Barrow, Jane; Magnuson, Britta; Tiwari, Tamanna; Oyoyo, Udochukwu; Brandt, Michael; Howe, Brian J.; Anderson, Gary C.; White, Joel; Kalenderian, Elsbeth (Oxford University Press, 2022-03)
    Few clinical datasets exist in dentistry to conduct secondary research. Hence, a novel dental data repository called BigMouth was developed, which has grown to include 11 academic institutions contributing Electronic Health ...
  • Measuring final-year dental students’ ability to remove teeth independently using independence ratios 
    Merbold, Karl-Heinz; Postma, Thomas Corne (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2022-09)
    BACKGROUND. Universities are obliged to ensure that dental graduates possess the necessary skills to render safe and effective treatment. Empirical evidence regarding the development of safe and effective independent ...
  • Development of an inventory of dental harms : methods and rationale 
    Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Lee, Joo Hyun; Obadan-Udoh, Enihomo M.; Yansane, Alfa; White, Joel; Walji, Muhammad F. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2022-09)
    OBJECTIVES : While adverse events (AEs) are all too prevalent, their underlying causes are difficult to assess because they are often multifactorial. Standardizing the language of dental AEs is an important first step ...
  • Study protocol : understanding pain after dental procedures, an observational study within the National Dental PBRN 
    Kalenderian, Elsbeth; White, Joel; Yansane, Alfa‑Ibrahim; Urata, Janelle; Holmes, David; Funkhouser, Kimberly; Mungia, Rahma; Xiao, Jin; Rauschenberger, Cindy; Ibarra‑Noriega, Ana; Tran, Duong; Rindal, D. Brad; Spallek, Heiko; Walji, Muhammad (BMC, 2022-12-09)
    BACKGROUND : Patient-reported outcome measures provide an essential perspective on the quality of health care provided. However, how data are collected, how providers value and make sense of the data, and, ultimately, use ...
  • Presence of management, entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing topics in the dental school curriculum in Brazil 
    Cunha D'Assuncao, Fabio Luiz; Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Carneiro, Davi Clementino; Fragoso Vercosa, Maria Vitoria; Santos, Jozemar Pereira; Yansane, Alfa-Ibrahim; Cunha D'Assuncao, Veronica Cabral dos Santos; Felinto, Arturo Rodrigues (Wiley, 2022-05)
    INTRODUCTION : To analyse the presence and characteristics of curricular components related to management, entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing as part of the structure and teaching methods of undergraduate courses ...
  • Development of a quality improvement dental chart review training program 
    Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Hebballi, Nutan B.; Franklin, Amy; Yansane, Alfa; Ibarra Noriega, Ana M.; White, Joel; Walji, Muhammad F. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2022-08)
    INTRODUCTION : Chart review is central to understanding adverse events (AEs) in medicine. In this article, we describe the process and results of educating chart reviewers assigned to evaluate dental AEs. METHODS : We ...
  • The burnout construct with reference to healthcare providers : a narrative review 
    Khammissa, Razia Abdool Gafaar; Nemutandani, Simon; Shangase, Sindisiwe Londiwe; Feller, Gal; Lemmer, Johan; Feller, Liviu (Sage, 2022-03)
    Burnout syndrome is a psychological response to long-term exposure to occupational stressors. It is characterized by emotional exhaustion, cognitive weariness and physical fatigue, and it may occur in association with any ...
  • A preliminary inquiry on the association between pre-admission assessments and academic performance of first year dental technology students’ within a South African university of technology 
    Vahed, Anisa; Naidoo, Subhadranalene; Singh, Deepak (South African Dental Association, 2021-05)
    INTRODUCTION : The use of selection, diagnostic, proficiency, placement, admission, manual dexterity and aptitude tests can reportedly predict students' academic success. Predictive admission procedures help to reduce ...
  • Caries risk documentation and prevention : eMeasures for dental electronic health records 
    Bangar, Suhasini; Neumann, Ana; White, Joel M.; Yansane, Alfa; Johnson, Todd R.; Olson, Gregory W.; Kumar, Shwetha V.; Kookal, Krishna K.; Kim, Aram; Obadan-Udoh, Enihomo; Mertz, Elizabeth; Simmons, Kristen; Mullins, Joanna; Brandon, Ryan; Walji, Muhammad F.; Kalenderian, Elsbeth (Thieme Gruppe, 2022-01)
    BACKGROUND: Longitudinal patient level dataavailable in the electronic health record (EHR)allows for the development, implementation, and validations of dental quality measures (eMeasures). Objective We report the ...
  • Assessing the completeness of periodontal disease documentation in the EHR : a first step in measuring the quality of care 
    Mullins, Joanna; Yansane, Alfa; Kumar, Shwetha V.; Bangar, Suhasini; Neumann, Ana; Johnson, Todd; Olson, Gregory W.; Kookal, Krishna Kumar; Sedlock, Emily; Kim, Aram; Mertz, Elizabeth; Brandon, Ryan; Simmons, Kristen; White, Joel M.; Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Walji, Muhammad F. (BMC, 2021-05-29)
    BACKGROUND : Our objective was to measure the proportion of patients for which comprehensive periodontal charting, periodontal disease risk factors (diabetes status, tobacco use, and oral home care compliance), and ...
  • Treatment of psoriasis 
    Jacobs, T.; Kgokolo, Mahlatse C.M. (Medpharm Publications, 2020-12)
    Psoriasis is a prevalent chronic inflammatory disease. Beyond skin and joint manifestations, psoriasis has numerous associated comorbidities, including metabolic and cardiovascular disease. There are many treatment options ...
  • Dental students’ self-perceived competency and usage of the internet for learning and evaluation purposes - Part 2 
    Sykes, Leanne M.; Postma, Thomas Corne; Uys, Andre; Brandt, Paul Dieter; Crafford, Elmine (South African Dental Association, 2020-08)
    Many dental lecturers are moving away from providing hand-out notes to their students and are rather opting for posting lecture material and tutorials on the internet using the various university platforms such as ...
  • The ‘digital access divide’ at a South African dental school – a cross-sectional study - Part 1 
    Postma, Thomas Corne; Sykes, Leanne M.; Uys, Andre; Brandt, Paul Dieter; Crafford, Elmine (South African Dental Association, 2020-08)
    This study sought to investigate the digital divide, from an access perspective, of dental students at the University of Pretoria. Second to final year students (n= 218 (87.2% response rate) completed a custom-designed survey ...
  • Reasons why South African dentists chose a career in Dentistry, and later opted to enter an academic environment 
    Mostert, Vanessa C. (South African Dental Association, 2018-04)
    OBJECTIVES : This study aimed to investigate the reasons why South African dentists chose to study Dentistry, later opting for an academic career. METHODS : A cross sectional survey using an anonymous 12-point ...
  • The prevalence of second canals in the mesiobuccal root of maxillary molars : a cone beam computed tomography study 
    Fernandes, N.A. (Nelson Alexander); Herbst, Dirk; Postma, Thomas Corne; Bunn, Belinda Kathleen (Wiley, 2019-04)
    The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of MB2 canals in permanent maxillary molars utilising CBCT; in patients attending a university hospital. A total of 200 patient scans, (100 female and 100 male patients), ...
  • Assessment of the anterior loop of the inferior alveolar nerve using reformatted computed tomography : a retrospective study 
    Todorovic, Vladimir S.; Postma, Thomas Corne; Van Zyl, Andre W. (Elsevier, 2018-04)
    The anterior loop of the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) is an important landmark in the anterior mandible that must be considered during the placement of dental implants. We measured the length and prevalence of loops of ...