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Revision of Dental Admission Test standard score scale

Journal of Dental Education, 1988
In October 1988 the Dental Admission Testing Program will begin reporting DAT scores on a new standard score scale. This scale will be based on the underlying ability metric rather than on the normal distribution that is the basis of the current‐1 to 9 scale.
R M, Smith, G A, Kramer, A T, Kubiak
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Effects of Tooth Scaling Reminders for Dental Outpatients

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2013
We investigated the effect of sending reminders for patients to attend appointments for tooth scaling. A total of 389 outpatients were assigned to three intervention groups (reminders sent by postcard, mobile-phone text message or telephone call) and one control group.
Chi-Chia J, Cheng, Chung-Yi, Li, Yih-Jin, Hu, Hsi-Che, Shen, Shay-Min, Huang   +4 more
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The Work Environment Scale: Baseline Data for Dental Schools

Psychological Reports, 1983
Comparisons of data from 298 preclinical and 104 clinical dental students in 1981 and 1982 on the Work Environment Scale are significant for Staff Support, Task Orientation, Work Pressure, and Clarity. Test results have been used to understand how students perceive their work environment.
Lusk, E. J., Cormier, P., Geranmayeh, A., Diserens, D., Neves, J.   +4 more
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The effect of electronic dental analgesia during sonic scaling

Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 1994
Abstract The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of electronic dental analgesia (EDA) during sonic scaling. The clinical trial included 30 healthy adult subjects and was conducted as a randomised single‐blind split‐mouth design. The applied procedure consisted of periodontal scaling by means of a sonic sealer, while using the EDA ...
R, Jacobs, D, van Steenberghe
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Testing a child dental neglect scale in South Australia

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1996
Abstract The concept of dental neglect may allow a better understanding of the complex relationship between individual behaviour, environmental factors and dental caries in children. Dental neglect has been previously explored among elderly people, but little is known of its occurrence among children.
Thomson, W., Spencer, A., Gaughwin, A.
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Dental plaque removal by cavitational activity during ultrasonic scaling

Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 1988
Abstract. Photomicrographs of the surfaces of recently extracted teeth stained with erythrosin dye were obtained. The stained surfaces were treated with an ultrasonic sealer using two different types of scaling tips driven by the same instrument operated at a medium power setting.
A D, Walmsley, W R, Laird, A R, Williams
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A visual analog scale for measuring dental fluorosis severity

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2005
To date, no continuous scale exists for measuring the severity of dental fluorosis (DF).The authors developed and validated a visual analog scale (VAS) for DF. They tested the scale in clinical (DF-endemic area) and laboratory settings.Dentists and nondentists (23 per group) were asked to grade the DF severity in photographs of 23 anterior teeth with ...
Anya P G F, Vieira, Herenia P, Lawrence, Hardy, Limeback, Fabio C, Sampaio, Marc, Grynpas   +4 more
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A Swedish version of the Dental Visit Satisfaction Scale

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2000
The aims of this study were to translate and analyze the Dental Visit Satisfaction Scale (DVSS), which has been developed to measure different aspects of the dentist-patient relationship in the view of the patient. Subjects were ordinary dental patients attending dental care in various public dental service clinics (PDS) and patients attending an ...
Hakeberg, Magnus, Heidari, Ellie, Norinder, Moa, Berggren, Ulf   +3 more
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Initial development of a scale to measure dental indifference

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1996
Abstract Lack of concern about dental health contributes significantly to the reluctance of people to attend for dental check‐ups and to implement preventive dental measures. The aim of this study was to develop and assess a questionnaire method of detecting this attitude which was described as dental indifference.
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A dental-facial attractiveness scale

American Journal of Orthodontics, 1983
Lisa A. Tedesco, Judith E. Albino, John J. Cunat, Malcolm J. Slakter, Karen J. Waltz   +4 more
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