The American Dental Association (ADA) recently sponsored a conference titled Evidence Based Dentistry (EBD) Champions 2.0: Implementing Science in Practice. The overall goal of the conference was to help the participants learn about advanced concepts and how to implement Evidence Based Dentistry. They divided EBD into some key areas of focus like clinical practice, policy and education and how to broadly deliver EBD to patients. The main spokesperson for the ADA and EBD is Jane Gillette, DDS.
Dr. Gillette stresses that EBD is important to understand to “keep practitioners current with changes in treatments and products. It is similar to Continuing Education (CE) but more structured. It involves asking a focused question, doing a literature search to find manuscripts to answer questions posed by the clinician and evaluating the evidence for scientific rigor and bias, consistency of results, and volume of evidence.” There is also the belief throughout the ADA that dental hygiene programs should also be teaching EBD as well as Dental schools. If more dental professionals have a formalized course in EBD they will know how to more efficiently find resources and how to teach EBD. The ADA Center for Evidence Based Dentistry is filled with resources for dental professionals to access. To more efficiently disseminate information about EBD, Dr. Gillette recommends creating an EBD learning environment by creating a team of EBD experts to get the information out to public health, private practice, education, and corporate sectors. She stresses that the key to creating a team like this is to find like-minded dentists and dental hygienists to get together and formulate questions and do research together with excellent resources to answer the questions you may have. It may be helpful for your group to first focus on questions that you usually get from patients. If you prefer to work by yourself rather than in a group there are plenty of resources available. Note, the workbook available on Amazon, Evidence-Based Decision Making and on online course at dentalcare.com titled, Evidence-Based Decision Making; Introduction and Formulating Good Clinical Questions.
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