Dentistry Internet Guide

Evidence-based Dentistry [EBD]

Organisations

* American Dental Association: ADA Policy on Evidence-based Dentistry
A good overview of evidence-based dentistry, including a glossary of terms.

* Australasian Cochrane Centre
The Australasian Cochrane Centre co-ordinates the activities of the Cochrane collaboration in the Australiasian region.

* Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry, Oxford
Independent body which has the aim of promoting the use of EBD worldwide. Contains a lot of useful information for both practising EBD and conducting research.

* Cochrane Oral Health Group
The Cochrane Oral Health Review Group comprises an international network of healthcare professionals, researchers and consumers preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials in oral health. A good source of information for those considering conducting a systematic review.

* Forsyth Institute: Center for Evidence-based Dentistry
The Center for Evidence-based Dentistry has developed "EviDents", a web-based search tool that can identify the best current clinical oral health literature in PubMed.

* New Zealand Dental Association: Evidence-based Dentistry
A good collection of Evidence-based Dentistry resources, including links to Sutherland's series of Evidence-based Dentistry articles that appeared in the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association in 2001.

University of Sydney Library EBD Databases

* ALL EBM Reviews: Cochrane, ACP Journal Club, DARE, and CCTR via OvidSP

* Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews via OvidSP

* Clinical Evidence via BMJ

* DARE: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness via OvidSP

* Medline via OvidSP - use the Clinical Queries Limits to locate primary research studies.

Other EBD Databases

* Cochrane Library via Wiley Interscience

* EviDents Search Engine - Forsyth Institute Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry
An alternative evidence-based dentistry search interface for PubMed.

* Evidentista: Pan-American Centers for Evidence based Dentistry
A database of clinical questions and answers for the busy clinician

Guides and tutorials

* Evidence-based Dentistry - University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library

* Searching for the Best Evidence - University of Sydney Medical Sciences Libraries EBM guide

* EBM Tutorial: Finding the Best Available Clinical Evidence - University of Sydney Medical Sciences Libraries

* Formulating Your Questions Using PICO - Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University [online video]

E-Journals

* Bandolier: Dental and Oral Health

* Evidence Based Dentistry

* Journal of Evidence-based dental practice