• Buccal and palatal alveolar bone dimensions in the anterior maxilla 

  Todorovic, Vladimir S.; Postma, Thomas Corne; Hoffman, Jakobus; Van Zyl, Andre W. (Wiley, 2023-04)

  OBJECTIVE : Anterior maxillary immediate implant placement has become a popular procedure. It has aesthetic and functional risks. A prerequisite for success is sufficient alveolar bone for primary stability. Many cone-beam ...
• Evaluating and improving the usability of a mHealth platform to assess postoperative dental pain 

  Ibarra Noriega, Ana M.; Yansane, Alfa; Mullins, Joanna; Simmons, Kristen; Skourtes, Nicholas; Holmes, David; White, Joel; Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Walji, Muhammad F. (Oxford University Press, 2024-03)

  OBJECTIVES : The use of interactive mobile health (mHealth) applications to monitor patient-reported postoperative pain outcomes is an emerging area in dentistry that requires further exploration. This study aimed to ...
• Patient and dentist perspectives on collecting patient reported outcomes after painful dental procedures in the National Dental PBRN 

  Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Tungare, Sayali; Mehta, Urvi; Hamid, Sharmeen; Mungia, Rahma; Yansane, Alfa-Ibrahim; Holmes, David; Funkhouser, Kim; Ibarra-Noriega, Ana M.; Urata, Janelle; Rindal, D. Brad; Spallek, Heiko; White, Joel M.; Walji, Muhammad F. (BMC, 2024-02)

  BACKGROUND : Dental Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) relate to a dental patient’s subjective experience of their oral health. How practitioners and patients value PROs influences their successful use in practice. METHODS ...
• Translating periodontal data to knowledge in a learning health system 

  Tokede, Bunmi; Yansane, Alfa; White, Joel; Bangar, Suhasini; Mullins, Joanna; Brandon, Ryan; Gantela, Swaroop; Kookal, Krishna; Rindal, Donald; Lee, Chun-Teh; Lin, Guo-Hao; Spallek, Heiko; Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Walji, Muhammad (Elsevier, 2022-10)

  BACKGROUND : A learning health system (LHS) is a health system in which patients and clinicians work together to choose care on the basis of best evidence and to drive discovery as a natural outgrowth of every clinical ...
• BigMouth : development and maintenance of a successful dental data repository 

  Walji, Muhammad F.; Spallek, Heiko; Kookal, Krishna Kumar; Barrow, Jane; Magnuson, Britta; Tiwari, Tamanna; Oyoyo, Udochukwu; Brandt, Michael; Howe, Brian J.; Anderson, Gary C.; White, Joel; Kalenderian, Elsbeth (Oxford University Press, 2022-03)

  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 ...
• Development of an inventory of dental harms : methods and rationale 

  Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Lee, Joo Hyun; Obadan-Udoh, Enihomo M.; Yansane, Alfa; White, Joel; Walji, Muhammad F. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2022-09)

  OBJECTIVES : While adverse events (AEs) are all too prevalent, their underlying causes are difficult to assess because they are often multifactorial. Standardizing the language of dental AEs is an important first step ...
• Study protocol : understanding pain after dental procedures, an observational study within the National Dental PBRN 

  Kalenderian, Elsbeth; White, Joel; Yansane, Alfa‑Ibrahim; Urata, Janelle; Holmes, David; Funkhouser, Kimberly; Mungia, Rahma; Xiao, Jin; Rauschenberger, Cindy; Ibarra‑Noriega, Ana; Tran, Duong; Rindal, D. Brad; Spallek, Heiko; Walji, Muhammad (BMC, 2022-12-09)

  BACKGROUND : Patient-reported outcome measures provide an essential perspective on the quality of health care provided. However, how data are collected, how providers value and make sense of the data, and, ultimately, use ...
• Presence of management, entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing topics in the dental school curriculum in Brazil 

  Cunha D'Assuncao, Fabio Luiz; Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Carneiro, Davi Clementino; Fragoso Vercosa, Maria Vitoria; Santos, Jozemar Pereira; Yansane, Alfa-Ibrahim; Cunha D'Assuncao, Veronica Cabral dos Santos; Felinto, Arturo Rodrigues (Wiley, 2022-05)

  INTRODUCTION : To analyse the presence and characteristics of curricular components related to management, entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing as part of the structure and teaching methods of undergraduate courses ...
• Development of a quality improvement dental chart review training program 

  Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Hebballi, Nutan B.; Franklin, Amy; Yansane, Alfa; Ibarra Noriega, Ana M.; White, Joel; Walji, Muhammad F. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2022-08)

  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 ...
• The burnout construct with reference to healthcare providers : a narrative review 

  Khammissa, Razia Abdool Gafaar; Nemutandani, Simon; Shangase, Sindisiwe Londiwe; Feller, Gal; Lemmer, Johan; Feller, Liviu (Sage, 2022-03)

  Burnout syndrome is a psychological response to long-term exposure to occupational stressors. It is characterized by emotional exhaustion, cognitive weariness and physical fatigue, and it may occur in association with any ...
• Caries risk documentation and prevention : eMeasures for dental electronic health records 

  Bangar, Suhasini; Neumann, Ana; White, Joel M.; Yansane, Alfa; Johnson, Todd R.; Olson, Gregory W.; Kumar, Shwetha V.; Kookal, Krishna K.; Kim, Aram; Obadan-Udoh, Enihomo; Mertz, Elizabeth; Simmons, Kristen; Mullins, Joanna; Brandon, Ryan; Walji, Muhammad F.; Kalenderian, Elsbeth (Thieme Gruppe, 2022-01)

  BACKGROUND: Longitudinal patient level dataavailable in the electronic health record (EHR)allows for the development, implementation, and validations of dental quality measures (eMeasures). Objective We report the ...
• Assessing the completeness of periodontal disease documentation in the EHR : a first step in measuring the quality of care 

  Mullins, Joanna; Yansane, Alfa; Kumar, Shwetha V.; Bangar, Suhasini; Neumann, Ana; Johnson, Todd; Olson, Gregory W.; Kookal, Krishna Kumar; Sedlock, Emily; Kim, Aram; Mertz, Elizabeth; Brandon, Ryan; Simmons, Kristen; White, Joel M.; Kalenderian, Elsbeth; Walji, Muhammad F. (BMC, 2021-05-29)

  BACKGROUND : Our objective was to measure the proportion of patients for which comprehensive periodontal charting, periodontal disease risk factors (diabetes status, tobacco use, and oral home care compliance), and ...
• Treatment of psoriasis 

  Jacobs, T.; Kgokolo, Mahlatse C.M. (Medpharm Publications, 2020-12)

  Psoriasis is a prevalent chronic inflammatory disease. Beyond skin and joint manifestations, psoriasis has numerous associated comorbidities, including metabolic and cardiovascular disease. There are many treatment options ...
• Dental students’ self-perceived competency and usage of the internet for learning and evaluation purposes - Part 2 

  Sykes, Leanne M.; Postma, Thomas Corne; Uys, Andre; Brandt, Paul Dieter; Crafford, Elmine (South African Dental Association, 2020-08)

  Many dental lecturers are moving away from providing hand-out notes to their students and are rather opting for posting lecture material and tutorials on the internet using the various university platforms such as ...
• The ‘digital access divide’ at a South African dental school – a cross-sectional study - Part 1 

  Postma, Thomas Corne; Sykes, Leanne M.; Uys, Andre; Brandt, Paul Dieter; Crafford, Elmine (South African Dental Association, 2020-08)

  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 ...
• Reasons why South African dentists chose a career in Dentistry, and later opted to enter an academic environment 

  Mostert, Vanessa C. (South African Dental Association, 2018-04)

  OBJECTIVES : This study aimed to investigate the reasons why South African dentists chose to study Dentistry, later opting for an academic career. METHODS : A cross sectional survey using an anonymous 12-point ...
• Assessing undergraduate dental students' exodontia competencies by employing a novel continuous assessment instrument 

  Merbold, Karl-Heinz (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  Background Universities are obliged to ensure that health professions graduates are competent to render safe and effective treatment. Unfortunately, empirical evidence of competence development is lacking, especially at ...
• Assessing the need for management and leadership training in Dentistry in South Africa 

  Tukuru, Michelle Olubunmi (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  The main aim of this study was to assess the need for management and leadership training in dentistry in South Africa (SA). The study also explored stakeholders’ opinion about the most important non-clinical skills to teach ...
• The prevalence of second canals in the mesiobuccal root of maxillary molars : a cone beam computed tomography study 

  Fernandes, N.A. (Nelson Alexander); Herbst, Dirk; Postma, Thomas Corne; Bunn, Belinda Kathleen (Wiley, 2019-04)

  The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of MB2 canals in permanent maxillary molars utilising CBCT; in patients attending a university hospital. A total of 200 patient scans, (100 female and 100 male patients), ...
• Assessment of the anterior loop of the inferior alveolar nerve using reformatted computed tomography : a retrospective study 

  Todorovic, Vladimir S.; Postma, Thomas Corne; Van Zyl, Andre W. (Elsevier, 2018-04)

  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 ...

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