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Evidence Based Dentistry - A Judicious Way of Making Decision
Shafaat Mohammad, Sabyasachi Saha, Sahana Srinivas
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute, India
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The importance of evidence for every branch of medicine in teaching in order to orient the practitioners among the great amount of most actual scientific information, and to support clinical decisions, is well established in health care, including dentistry.
The need for reliable information and the electronic revolution have come together to allow the''paradigm shift" towards evidence-based health care. Recent years have seen an increase in the importance of evidence-based dentistry, aiming to reduce to the maximum the gap between clinical research and real world dental practice. Aim of evidence-based practice is the systematic literature review, which synthesizes the best evidences and provides the basis for clinical practice guidelines. These practice guidelines give a brief review of what evidence-based dentistry is and how to use it. |
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