BACKGROUND : The Schatzker classification is the most widely accepted system used to classify tibial plateau fractures. The presence of posteromedial fragments in the more severe fracture types is known, but the presence ...

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 ...

INTRODUCTION : The University of Pretoria Oral Health Centre (UPOHC) is inundated by patients presenting with toothache, many requiring emergency pulpectomies (EPs). To date, the outcome of these procedures performed at ...

BACKGROUND. The inclusion of ‘management’ competencies in medical curricula is widely propagated. There is some evidence in the literature that undergraduate dental students regard clinical skills as more important than ...

OBJECTIVE : The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical rationale for the implementation of the Four Component Instructional Design Model for Complex Learning (4C/ID-model) at the University of Pretoria with ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVES: The study sought to determine the level of musculoskeletal disorders among working oral hygienists in South Africa and potential determinants that are associated with these disorders. METHODS: Oral hygienists ...

INTRODUCTION : There is a need to measure the social accountability of dental students following service learning (SL) exposure. OBJECTIVES : To pilot the Community Service Attitudes Scale (CSAS) and to test its ...

BACKGROUND. Medical and dental students often participate in joint basic science curricula, such as the basic science curriculum at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Reports from the USA and Australia, however, ...

INTRODUCTION : There are no empirical studies that describe factors that may influence the development of integrated clinical reasoning skills in dental education. Hence, this study examines the association between outcomes ...