Say for example you'd like to know “How effective is fluoride varnish?”
You can find the answer on ebd.ada.org in three simple steps:
- Go to ebd.ada.org
- Enter your search term. In this case perhaps you'd try “fluoride varnish”
- Review your results!
a critical summary. With more than 500 clinical trials per dental specialty published every year, ebd.ada.org can give you a quick look at the latest available evidence.
ebd.ada.org provides evidence-based clinical recommendations that are intended to provide dentists and other health professionals with a review of the latest scientific evidence on particular topics and are not considered a standard of care.
Evidence-based dentistry (EBD) is an approach to dental practice—an approach to making
clinical decisions—and scientific evidence is just one tool informed dentists use to arrive
at the best treatment decisions.
EBD integrates three important aspects of clinical dental practice:
1. A dentist’s clinical skill and judgment
2. A patient’s needs and preferences
3. The best available scientific evidence
Every year there is a large volume of published studies. So how does one easily find the latest evidence and keep up with new information?
That's where ebd.ada.org comes in!
A quick search on ebd.ada.org will yield systematic reviews from several resources and critical summaries for some of the reviews.
A systematic review identifies and evaluates all of the evidence to answer a specific, narrowly-focused clinical question, while a critical summary is a one- to two-page summary and discussion of a systematic review.
~ Information provided by the Oregon Dental Association