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Evidence Supporting Platform-Switching To Preserve Marginal Bone Levels Not Definitive, Gary L. Stafford

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Data sources

MEDLINE, EMBASE, The Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), UK National Research Register, Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), ISI Proceedings for relevant conference abstracts. The search strategy used keywords but not subject heading terms. A number of relevant journals were hand searched (seven most recent years) and authors were contacted in the absence of complete data.

Study selection

Randomised controlled trials (RCT) or controlled clinical trials (CCT) reported in English only, that compared platform-switched to platform-matched implants were eligible. A …

Rural–Urban Differences In Dental Service Use Among Children Enrolled In A Private Dental Insurance Plan In Wisconsin: Analysis Of Administrative Data, Pradeep Bhagavatula, Qun Xiang, Aniko Szabo, Fredrick Eichmiller, Raymond A. Kuthy, Christopher Okunseri

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Background

Studies on rural–urban differences in dental care have primarily focused on differences in utilization rates and preventive dental services. Little is known about rural–urban differences in the use of wider range of dental procedures. This study examined patterns of preventive, restorative, endodontic, and extraction procedures provided to children enrolled in Delta Dental of Wisconsin (DDWI).

Methods

We analyzed DDWI enrollment and claims data for children aged 0-18 years from 2002 to 2008. We modified and used a rural and urban classification based on ZIP codes developed by the Wisconsin Area Health Education Center (AHEC). We categorized the ZIP codes …

Discrepancies Between Abstracts Presented At International Association For Dental Research Annual Sessions From 2004 To 2005 And Full-Text Publication, Soni Prasad, Damian J. Lee, Judy Chia-Chun Yuan, Valentim A. R. Barao, Nodesh Shyamsunder, Cortino Sukotjo

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the discrepancies between abstracts presented at the IADR meeting (2004-2005) and their full-text publication. Material and Methods. Abstracts from the Prosthodontic Section of IADR meeting were obtained. The following information was collected: abstract title, number of authors, study design, statistical analysis, outcome, and funding source. PubMed was used to identify the full-text publication of the abstracts. The discrepancies between the abstract and the full-text publication were examined, categorized as major and minor discrepancies, and quantified. The data were collected and analyzed using descriptive analysis. Frequency and percentage of major …