Evidence-based Dentistry

Assignment 1: Following your reading of the journal article of this week entitled  “Evidence-based dentistry: Two decades and beyond” you need to write a paper, with at least two additional references to support your paper. In addition, you should follow APA style within your writing, and also you must answer the following questions:

1. Why the American Dental Association preferred to use “evidence-based dentistry” as an approach to oral health practice and to help practitioner to reach or make a decision?

2. Why is the ” evidence-based dentistry” still not acceptable approach across academic and private clinical dentistry in the United States? 

3. What are the four dimensions in the evidence-based dentistry curricula must be engaged in?

4. What are the three fundamental factors that can be used by the healthcare  practitioner to determine the efficacy of learning, all subjects, including evidence-based dentistry?

Assignment 2:

Select, read, and synthesize three peer-reviewed journal articles of your choice to acquire information about a specific topic of interest to you, or to gather information as evidence about the history and evolution of evidence-based medicine. (You must use published scientific journal articles of original research, not review papers discussing multiple studies on the same topic.  Acquire evidence from the literature, summarize your findings in a two-page paper, and provide specific examples of past clinical practices that are no longer followed. Please follow the APA format.