Dental students' ability to judge the quality of composite restorations' exemplars depicted in photographs and their impact on preclinical skills.
Eur J Dent Educ
; 28(2): 471-480, 2024 May.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Assessing exemplars as a formative activity is thought to promote students' learning. This study aimed to investigate dental students' ability to judge the quality of composite restorations' exemplars depicted in photographs and their impact on students' preclinical skills. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
In a non-randomised controlled crossover trial with two intervention arms, 92 undergraduates in their first preclinical course self-enrolled in into the intervention group (A1-INT) or control group (B1-CT). The intervention group assessed photographic images of composite restorations before restoring an ivorine premolar with composite while the control group restored the same tooth without assessing the photographic exemplars. Intervention and control groups were swapped 3 days later in a second iteration (B2-INT, A2-CT). Data were analysed in SPSS® version 27 using nonparametric tests.RESULTS:
Students who did not complete all activities in the study were excluded. Therefore, 57 out of the 92 student participants were included in the study analysis. No significant differences were observed between intervention and control groups' ability to assess quality of photographic exemplars or restoring a tooth in both iterations.CONCLUSION:
Students were able to identify the quality of composite restorations in photographic exemplars. It appears that assessing photographic exemplars did not have an immediate impact on students' ability to restore a tooth with composite.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Estudiantes de Odontología
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Diente
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eur J Dent Educ
Asunto de la revista:
EDUCACAO
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ODONTOLOGIA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Australia