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Oral-Systemic Health and Disorders: Latest Prospects on Oral Antisepsis
No full textA growing body of evidence supports the inter-connections between oral dysbiosis [...
Oral and Systemic Health in the Elderly
No full textThe oral cavity undergoes essential age-related changes involving the mucosa, the dental and periodontal tissues, and the musculoskeletal system [...
Education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the perception of Italian dental and medical students
No full textBACKGROUND: During COVID-19 pandemic many dental and medical students continued their education from home. From several studies it emerges that students prefer face-to-face teaching, due to the better interaction with teachers, the least number of distractions and due to the negative effect of social isolation on the psychological aspect. The aim of this study was to evaluate the perception of Italian dentistry and medicine students about teaching and training in this scenario.METHODS: Two online questionnaires were sent to medical and dental students of all Italian universities to investigate the limits and advantages of distance learning and the experience regarding the internship. A chi-square test was used to assess the association between gender, year of the course and region of residence (P<0.05). RESULTS: One thousand one hundred thirty-eight students answered the first survey, and 292 the second one. Most students preferred face-to-face teaching due to the difficult to maintain attention during online lessons. Many students reported that the online internship was not adequate for their education.CONCLUSIONS: Distance learning disadvantages are the greater number of sources of distraction, low level of interac-tion, and absence of the relationship with the patient during the practical training. Furthermore, isolation has strongly affected psychosocial balance of the students. The advantages are the greater comfort, the reduction of transport costs, the decrease in pollution, and the possibility of reviewing the lessons. Most Italian students considered appropriate to provide distance learning during the pandemic but believed that the best teaching method was teaching in presence. (Cite this article as: Spirito F, Amato A, Scelza G, Pisano M, Caponio VCA, Martina S. Education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the perception of Italian dental and medical students. Minerva Dent Oral Sc 2022;71:277-86. DOI: 10.23736/ S2724-6329.22.04712-X
Oral Diseases During Systemic Psoriatic Drugs: A Review of the Literature and Case Series
No full textIntroduction: The oral health of psoriatic patients seems to be compromised compared to that of control individuals: many published studies have investigated the relationship between psoriatic disease and gingivitis, periodontitis, and missing teeth. However, data from these studies are not consistent nor exhaustive. Moreover, no study has considered the possible specific effects of conventional and biological systemic psoriatic treatments. Objective: We report a narrative review of the literature about the possible link between anti- psoriatic drugs and oral disease onset and present case series of patients that have experienced oral disease during systemic therapy for psoriasis. Methods: This is a narrative review. The literature search was performed using the MEDLINE database. From the selected articles, additional references were identified by a manual search among the cited literature. Results: Oral adverse events during psoriatic therapies can be found in sporadic cases. The specific mechanisms of interplay between oral anatomic structures and the pathway targeted by the systemic agents will be investigated in depth. Conclusion: All psoriatic patients who are candidates for conventional or biological systemic therapy should have regular oral health check-ups with a dentist and a dermatologist to prevent oral complications. Dermatologists and oral medicine specialists should be ready to recognize and manage this increasing number of oral adverse drug reactions during systemic treatments for psoriatic disease so as to provide patients with sufficient information about this risk and to stress the fundamental importance of regular dental assessments and good oral hygiene
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Cerebellar contribution to spatial event processing: do spatial procedures contribute to formation of spatial declarative knowledge?
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