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Senior Dental Students’ Experience With Cariogram In A Pediatric Dentistry Clinic, Cesar Gonzalez, Christopher Okunseri
Senior Dental Students’ Experience With Cariogram In A Pediatric Dentistry Clinic, Cesar Gonzalez, Christopher Okunseri
School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications
The study objective was to assess predoctoral dental students’ experience with a caries risk assessment computer program in the pediatric dentistry clinic at Marquette University School of Dentistry. In 2005, spring semester sophomore dental students (class of 2008) were introduced to the caries risk assessment computer program “Cariogram.” The students received a fifty-minute lecture on caries risk assessment and a demonstration on how to use Cariogram in the clinic. After two years of clinical exposure to Cariogram, sixty-six out of eighty senior dental students completed an anonymous eleven-item questionnaire on their experience with the tool. Each item on the questionnaire …