ArticleBMC oral health2009
Practices participating in a dental PBRN have substantial and advantageous diversity even though as a group they have much in common with dentists at large.
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62 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Cluster Effects in a National Dental PBRN restorative study.Journal of dental research · 2013Trial
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- Engagement of dentists and patients in underserved rural and dental health provider shortage areas by the national dental practice-based network.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2026Article
- Factors associated with dental dam use during non-surgical root canal treatment: A national dental PBRN study.Journal of dentistry · 2026Article
- Factors Affecting Root Canal Treatment Case Difficulty, Practitioner Rating of Difficulty and Treatment Complications Among General Dentists and Endodontists: A Prospective Cohort Study From National Dental Practice-Based Research Network PREDICT Project.International endodontic journal · 2025Article
- Classification of postoperative bleeding severity by general dental practitioners in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network: a survey-based assessment.Quintessence international (Berlin, Germany : 1985) · 2025Article
- Advancing oral health through practice-based research.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2023Article
- Characteristics of dentists in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.Journal of dentistry · 2023Article
- Barriers to and facilitators of opioid prescribing by dentists in the United States: A qualitative study.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2022Article
- Management of painful temporomandibular disorders: Methods and overview of The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network prospective cohort study.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2022Article
- Dental practitioners' use of health risk assessments for a variety of health conditions: Results from the South Atlantic region of The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2021Article
- Prophylactic antibiotic prescribing in dental practice: Findings from a National Dental Practice-Based Research Network questionnaire.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2020Article
- Clinical acceptance of single-unit crowns and its association with impression and tissue displacement techniques: Findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.The Journal of prosthetic dentistry · 2020Article
- Leveraging Electronic Dental Record Data for Clinical Research in the National Dental PBRN Practices.Applied clinical informatics · 2020Article
- Laboratory Technician Assessment of the Quality of Single-Unit Crown Preparations and Impressions as Predictors of the Clinical Acceptability of Crowns as Determined by the Treating Dentist: Findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.Journal of prosthodontics : official journal of the American College of Prosthodontists · 2020Article
- Choice of cement for single-unit crowns: Findings from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2019Article
- Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use: National Dental PBRN Results.JDR clinical and translational research · 2019Article
- Remake Rates for Single-Unit Crowns in Clinical Practice: Findings from The National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.Journal of prosthodontics : official journal of the American College of Prosthodontists · 2019Article
- Training experiences regarding pain management, addiction, and drug diversion of dentists enrolled in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.Substance abuse · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundPractice-based research networks offer important opportunities to move recent advances into routine clinical practice. If their findings are not only generalizable to dental practices at large, but can also elucidate how practice characteristics are related to treatment outcome, their importance is even further elevated. Our objective was to determine whether we met a key objective for The Dental Practice-Based Research Network (DPBRN): to recruit a diverse range of practitioner-investigators interested in doing DPBRN studies.
methodsDPBRN participants completed an enrollment questionnaire about their practices and themselves. To date, more than 1100 practitioners from the five participating regions have completed the questionnaire. The regions consist of: Alabama/Mississippi, Florida/Georgia, Minnesota, Permanente Dental Associates, and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden). We tested the hypothesis that there are statistically significant differences in key characteristics among DPBRN practices, based on responses from dentists who participated in DPBRN's first network-wide study (n = 546).
resultsThere were statistically significant, substantive regional differences among DPBRN-participating dentists, their practices, and their patient populations.
conclusionAlthough as a group, participants have much in common with practices at large; their substantial diversity offers important advantages, such as being able to evaluate how practice differences may affect treatment outcomes, while simultaneously offering generalizability to dentists at large. This should help foster knowledge transfer in both the research-to-practice and practice-to-research directions.
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