This new edition of Ann Bowling's well-known and highly respected text has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect key methodological developments in health research. It is a comprehensive, easy to read, guide to the range of methods used to study and evaluate health and health services. It describes the concepts and methods used by the main disciplines involved in health research, including: demography, epidemiology, health economics, psychology and sociology.The research methods described cover the assessment of health needs, morbidity and mortality trends and rates, costing health services, sampling for survey research, cross-sectional and longitudinal survey design, experimental methods and techniques of group assignment, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, coding and analysis of quantitative data, methods and analysis of qualitative observational studies, and types of unstructured interviewing. With new material on topics such as cluster randomization, utility analyses, patients' preferences, and perception of risk, the text is aimed at students and researchers of health and health services. It has also been designed for health professionals and policy makers who have responsibility for applying research findings in practice, and who need to know how to judge the value of that research.

Research Methods in Health. Investigating health and health services

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Digging up Bones

Age estimation of adults from dental radiographs

Progress in dimethacrylate-based dental composite technology and curing efficiency

Cytotoxicity of Four Root End Filling Materials

Abstract Introduction: Manufactures claim that recently introduced bulk fill materials (BFM) can be cured adequately in 4 mm increments. This requires adequate light energy to be transmitted through the material to ensure adequate polymerization at the bottom of the increment. Aim: To compare the total light energy transmission through three BFMs and bottom/top (B/T) surface Vickers hardness (VH) when cured with single-peak versus dual-peak LED LCUs. Methods and Materials: Samples (n=5) of two viscous BFMs, Tetric EvoCeram® Bulk Fill X-tra fil® [XF] flowable SureFil, were prepared. A conventional RBC, Tetric EvoCeram® was used as a control. Using MARC® RC, the irradiance delivered to top surface of samples was adjusted to 1200 mW/cm2. Samples were cured with singlepeak EliparTM S10 or dual-peakBluephase® G2 for 10 seconds and irradiance transmitted to the bottom surface measured. Samples were stored for 24 hours, prior to VH measurements B/T VH ratios were calculated. Statistically analysed used oneway ANOVA (α=0.05). Results: There was no statistically significant difference for B/T total energy transmission between materials except XF with EliparTM S10 (P<0.001). Total energy transmission ranged from 0.7 J/cm2 to 1.5 J/cm2. There was no statistically significant difference for B/T VH ratios between materials (P>0.05) when materials were cured with single-peak versus dual-peak LCU’s, XF>SDR>TEC>TBF. TBF alone, did not reach the generally accepted B/T VH of 80%. Conclusions: Both single-peak and dual-peak LCU’s were equally effective for curing the studied bulk fill materials. Manufacture’s recommended total energy delivered to the top surface may not always be sufficient for effective curing.

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Bulk Fill Resin Composite Materials Cured with Single-Peak versus Dual-Peak LED LCUs

Purpose To investigate the microleakage associated with a hybrid resin-based composite, Tetric Ceram, bonded with the single component dentin bonding agent Excite and Ariston pHc bonded with Ariston Liner. Ariston pHc bonded with Excite and Tetric Ceram bonded with Prime and Bond NT were used as controls. Materials and methods Twenty-four extracted human premolars and molars were randomly assigned to four groups. Group 1: cavities were bonded with Excite and filled with Tetric Ceram. Group 2: cavities were bonded with Ariston Liner and filled with Ariston pHc. Group 3, control: cavities were bonded with Prime & Bond NT and filled with Tetric Ceram. Group 4, control: cavities were bonded Excite and filled with Ariston pHc. Cavities were cut in both the buccal and lingual surfaces. Half of each preparation was in enamel and the other was in cementum/dentin. The teeth were thermocycled at 15 degrees C for 2 s, 35 degrees C for 28 s and 45 degrees C for 2 s for 5,000 cycles after which the restorations were examined microscopically for leakage using procion brilliant red as a marker. SEM microphotographs were prepared from dye-labeled and non dye-labeled areas to illustrate the micromorphology of the systems. Results None of the groups showed microleakage at the enamel margins. All groups showed microleakage at the gingival margins. At the gingival margin there was a significant difference between the groups (Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA, P= 0.1111.). Ariston pHc/Ariston Liner showed significantly lower microleakage scores than the other groups (Dunn's Multiple Comparison test). SEM showed that in non-dye labeled areas, Ariston pHc/Ariston Liner was in close apposition to the deeper dental tissues. The "total etch" technique resulted in a zone of demineralization. Debonding occurred at or near the top of the hybrid layer in >95% of specimens.

Microleakage of tetric ceram/excite and Ariston pHc/Ariston liner.

Asking the clinical question Evidence-based primary care practice requires that clinicians draw on the best available research to facilitate their decision-making. The first step in this procedure is to source the relevant research literature, and this is dependant on asking a well-designed clinical question. There are two types of question that can be asked, and the type helps to determine which resources to access in order to answer the clinical question: • ‘Background’ questions ask for general know ledge about a condition or specific topic. An Introduction to Research for Primary Dental Care Clinicians Part 1: The First Three Stages In A Research Project

An introduction to research for primary dental care clinicians part 1: the first three stages in a research project.

This paper, the fifth in the series, will address the sixth of the ten stages of a research project suggested in the first paper. The ten suggested stages are:1. The initial idea (asking a research...

An Introduction to Research for Primary Dental Care Clinicians: Part 5: Stage 6b. Obtaining Funding

This paper, the fourth in the series, will address the sixth of the ten stages of a research project suggested in the first paper. The ten suggested stages are:1. The initial idea (asking a researc...

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Bulk Fill Resin Composite Materials Cured with Single-Peak versus Dual-Peak LED LCUs

Microleakage of tetric ceram/excite and Ariston pHc/Ariston liner.

An introduction to research for primary dental care clinicians part 1: the first three stages in a research project.

An Introduction to Research for Primary Dental Care Clinicians: Part 5: Stage 6b. Obtaining Funding

An introduction to research for primary dental care clinicians part 4: stage 6a. Obtaining ethical approval.