{"id":2111,"date":"2018-06-15T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T19:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=2111"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:11:22","slug":"ebd-intro-p12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/ebmebd-tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-dentistry-ebd\/ebd-intro-p12\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Practice EBD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medlib\/files\/2018\/06\/types_sm_unfil.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"212\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" style=\"display: inline; margin: 2px 2px 2px 5px;\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>PROBLEM: Variations occur between dental practitioners in the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, outcomes and cost of care for patients with similar diseases<sup>1<\/sup><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">FACT:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Studies of dentists in Finland and Scotland found unanimous agreement on only two of 2,435 tooth surfaces examined.<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">EBD SOLUTION:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>A review of topical case studies can provide information on how similar cases have been treated.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">EBD RESOURCE:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Medline (<a href=\"http:\/\/www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxy.bu.edu\/sites\/entrez?otool=mabummlib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PubMed<\/a>) searching with the results limited to Case Studies will provide a information on how other practitioners have treated their patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Niederman R and Badovinac R.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/00220345990780070101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradition-based Dental Care and Evidence-based Dental Care<\/a>. J Dent Res 1999 78(7): 1288-1291.<\/p>\n<p>2. Bader JD, Shugars DA.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7562733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variations in Dentists&#8217; Clinical Decisions<\/a>. J Public Health Dent 1995 55(3): 181-188.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebd-intro-p13\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROBLEM: Variations occur between dental practitioners in the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, outcomes and cost of care for patients with similar diseases1 FACT:\u00a0Studies of dentists in Finland and Scotland found unanimous agreement on only two of 2,435 tooth surfaces examined.2 EBD SOLUTION:\u00a0A review of topical case studies can provide information on how similar cases have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":2083,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2111\/revisions\/4168"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}