Criação de um aplicativo móvel e questionários WEB como estratégia de ensino e avaliação em Odontologia / Creating a mobile APP and WEB questionnaires as teaching and assessment strategies in Dentistry

O presente estudo relata a experiência da criação do aplicativo móvel (APP) RUBOND e o uso de questionários WEB como estratégia de ensinoe avaliação em Odontologia. A criação do aplicativo móvel ocorreu por meio da plataforma Fábrica de Aplicativos, sendo definido a temática dos Sistemas Adesivos Universais como tema central. A elaboração dos questionários para avaliação dos conhecimentos adquiridos por meio do material disponibilizado no APP se deu por meio da plataforma Online Pesquisa. As questões utilizadas foram retiradas de provas do Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Eestudantes. O acesso aos questionários aconteceuvia linkdisponível no aplicativo móvel.A criação do aplicativo móvel RUBOND e questionários WEB como estratégia de ensino e avaliação em Odontologia podem ser uma ferramenta viável na prática docente e discente, desde que corretamente utilizados. Sugere-se que mais estudos sejam realizados para confirmar as vantagens dos aplicativos móveis e questionários WEB no ensino e avaliação em Odontologia (AU).

The present study reports the experience of creating the RUBOND mobile application (APP) and the use of WEB questionnaires asteaching and assessmentstrategiesin Dentistry. The creation of the mobile application took place through theFábrica de Aplicativos platform, with the theme of Universal Adhesive Systems being defined as a central subject. The preparation of questionnaires to assess the knowledge acquired through the material available in the APP occurredin the Online Pesquisa platform. The questions used were taken fromtests of the National Student Performance Exam(ENADE). The questionnaires wereaccessed via a direct link attached to the mobile APP. The creation of the RUBOND mobile application and WEB questionnaires as a teachingand assessment strategy in Dentistry can be a viable tool in student and teaching practice, as long as they are correctlyused. Further studies are needed to confirm the benefits of mobile APPand WEB questionnaires in teaching and assessment in Dentistry (AU).

Aplicativo baseado nos determinantes da doença cárie para apoio à tomada de decisão / Application based on dental caries determinants for decision making support

Objetivos: Demonstrar o desenvolvimento de um aplicativo baseado nos determinantes da doença cárie dentária. Materiais e métodos: O aplicativo foi desenvolvido por meio de um trabalho interdisciplinar entre profissionais das áreas de Odontologia, que forneceram o referencial teórico que fundamentou as regras necessárias para o desenvolvimento do aplicativo, e profissionais das áreas de Sistemas de Informação e de Design que programaram o software. Resultados: Um aplicativo que permite receber, armazenar e analisar dados referentes aos determinantes do processo saúde-doença da cárie dentária de um indivíduo, bem como de grupos de indivíduos. Conclusão: Sua utilização possibilita a gestão das informações e agilidade nos processos de tomadas de decisão, tornando-se útil na organização de diferentes intervenções no processo saúde-doença da cárie dentária, no âmbito dos serviços de saúde. Atua também como instrumento de apoio no ensino em Odontologia ao abordar temas como a cárie e seus determinantes, relação entre o território e o processo saúde-doença bucal, modelo de atenção em saúde bucal e vigilância em saúde.

Aims: Show the development stages of an application based on dental caries disease determinants. Materials and Methods: The software was developed by interdisciplinary work done by Dentistry, Information Systems and Design professionals. Results: The application that allows receiving, storing and analyzing data related to dental caries health-disease process determinants for an individual and groups of individuals. Conclusion: The application was developed seeking operational efficiency, and has the potential ability both to manage stored and analyzed information and to streamline decision-making processes, making it useful for the development of different interventions in dental caries health-disease processes in healthcare. The possibility of it acting as a support tool in the teaching of dentistry, by addressing issues such as caries and its determinants, the relationship between territory and the oral health-disease process, oral health assistance models and oral health surveillance, is worth mentioning.

A nonsurgical endodontics relational research database: the initial six years of experience.

The purpose of this study was to report results of the initial six years of experience utilizing a nonsurgical root canal treatment (NSRCT) database; to compare patient characteristics, operative procedures, and patient outcomes observed in the database to those observed in other studies; and to discuss the potential benefits of a clinical endodontic database. A total of 7,372 NSRCT cases performed by endodontic residents at the University of Pennsylvania from 2000 to 2006 were evaluated. The odds ratio (OR) for caries and trauma being causative agents for NSRCT in

Automatic mining of the literature to generate new hypotheses for the possible link between periodontitis and atherosclerosis: lipopolysaccharide as a case study.

AIM: The aim of the current report was to generate and explore new hypotheses into how, in a pathophysiological sense, atherosclerosis and periodontitis could be linked. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Two different biomedical informatics techniques were used: an association-based technique that generated a ranked list of genes associated with the diseases, and a natural language processing tool that extracted the relationships between the retrieved genes and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). RESULTS: This combined approach of association-based and natural language processing-based literature mining identified a hit list of 16 candidate genes, with PON1 as the primary candidate. CONCLUSIONS: Further study of the literature prompted the hypothesis that PON1 might connect periodontitis with atherosclerosis in both an LPS-dependent and a non-LPS-dependent manner. Furthermore, the resulting genes not only confirmed already known associations between the two diseases, but also provided genes or gene products that have only been investigated separately in the two disease states, and genes or gene products previously reported to be involved in atherosclerosis. These findings remain to be investigated through clinical studies. This example of multidisciplinary research illustrates how collaborative efforts of investigators from different fields of expertise can result in the discovery of new hypotheses.

Remote access of electronic patient data with cellular wireless broadband technology.

Wireless cellular broadband technology currently transmits data at speeds that only wired broadband connections were capable of until now. By using high-speed data access protocols such as evolution data optimized (EV-DO) or enhanced data rate for global system for mobile communications evolution (EDGE), gaining access to patient data in an orthodontic office remotely has become a relatively simple task. Affordable and convenient cellular broadband networks allow the orthodontist to remotely access schedules, and update, review, add, or modify data virtually from anywhere. Newer generation wireless broadband technologies have made the virtual office a reality. This article discusses the various broadband technologies that are available for the orthodontist as a techno-savvy consumer and the availability of wide area networks that include third-generation cellular technologies that can be used for remote access of patient data. The new enterprise-level gadgets that use third-generation technologies are also introduced.