Dental hygiene, as an emerging profession, needs to increase the number of intervention
studies that identify improvements in oral health outcomes for clients. Historically, dental …

Although remarkable growth has occurred in the dental hygiene research arena, an
increased emphasis on research development will facilitate the designation of dental …

The practice of dental hygiene was developed to provide oral health education and
preventive oral health care, originally for children. It has grown to provide oral health …

It is widely recognized that dental hygiene practice must be based on sound research and
scientific information. To promote research and advance the scientific base of dental …

Dissemination and implementation science is a field of research that promotes the adoption
and maintenance of evidence‐based interventions in healthcare delivery and community …

OBJECTIVES: This paper discusses practice-based research (PBR) as a means to speed up
the translation of research findings to clinical practice. It also reviews repair versus …

As dental hygiene responds to the increased need for quality oral health services, dental
hygienists seek quality research findings on which to base their practice decisions …

Scientific inquiry and discovery are the fuel for education, research, technology, and health
care in all the health professions: dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health …

In his July/August 2008 Compendium article entitled The Lessons of History on Charting a
New Pathway for Acceptance of Innovations, 1 Edward F. Rossomando, DDS, PhD, MS …

The application of knowledge is fundamental to human problem solving. In health
disciplines, knowledge utilization commonly manifests through evidence‐based decision …