Impact of Teaching Strategies on Caries Detection and Management
Swetha Sriram, Swetha Perumal, Latha Nirmal, Priya Jayakumar, Gayathri Thiruvengadam · 2025
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Description
How dental students learn to spot and treat tooth decay is compared by Swetha Sriram and co-authors in work dated 2025. Decay is on the rise, so sharp training tools matter. Ninety students in their last three years took a fifteen-question test on two scoring systems for decay. They then split by chance into three arms: online study, class tutorial, or both.
Three weeks later the same test ran again. All three arms improved. The mixed arm gained most by a wide edge, ahead of online-only and tutorial-only arms. Blended study thus looks best for skill in these scoring systems. Dental schools may weigh that in course design.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Swetha Sriram, Swetha Perumal, Latha Nirmal, Priya Jayakumar, Gayathri Thiruvengadam |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |