OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the study was to identify and understand social media usage behaviour of dentists in South Africa, in general and in particular as part of their marketing strategy and to consider the potential ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE : To investigate the association between arealevel socio-economic position (SEP) and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). METHODS : Data collected from a nationally representative sample of the South ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Healthcare professionals are being challenged by a whole host of outside pressures and forces. The emerging healthcare environment and traditional ways of thinking are mutually exclusive. Innovative thinking is required ...