Purpose: Concept mapping, as a teaching strategy, has been shown to promote critical thinking
and problem solving in educational settings. Dental clinicians must distinguish between …

The major shift in dental education in the past couple of decades has been away from
process—clock-hours and number of clinical procedures—to outcomes. In order to be accredited …

Since the inception of dental hygiene in 1913, we have witnessed the tremendous evolution
of the profession. Within the past couple two decades a significant game changer has been …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the home care of noncompliant adolescent
orthodontic patients with “poor” oral hygiene could be improved through the use of a …

The purpose of this article is to describe the process of transitioning a traditional face‐to‐face
oral and maxillofacial radiology (OMR) lecture course to a case‐based, team‐based …

The aim of this study was to explore student and course director experiences with the redesign
of a traditional lecture‐based course into a flipped classroom for teaching didactic content …

In 2004 personnel from the Missouri Area Health Education Centers and faculty from the
University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Dentistry, Division of Dental Hygiene, joined …

Globalization is a broad term referring to the increasing connectivity, integration, and
interdependence of economies, societies, technologies, cultures, and political and ecological …

The aim of this study was to describe the implementation of one form of social media (Twitter)
in an oral radiology course and evaluate dental students’ use and perceptions of this …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of a service‐learning course on
special needs patients for dental hygiene students by considering student reflections, …