Research Guides: Information Resources for UofT Alumni and other Practising Dentists: Online Resources

Databases

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's version of their MEDLINE database. It is freely available to the public (containing approximately 12 million citations, many of them with abstracts, from over 3,900 health sciences journals).

IADR Abstract Archive
The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) holds the most important dental research meetings in the world. The meeting abstracts provided through this database will help you to keep up to date on current dental and collateral research findings.
Trip Database
Trip's goal is to "allow health professionals to easily find the highest-quality materials available on the web to help support evidence-based practice." It also provides easy access to medical images and patient information handouts.
TSpace
All theses published by the Master and Ph.D. students from Faculty of Dentistry University of Toronto since 2009 are freely available through this database.
Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Reports from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)from
This search provides complete titles of all evidence reports completed by EPCs, including reports for the Effective Health Care Program, the Technology Assessment Program, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Drug information

Drugs.com
A website about prescription & OTC drug information for consumers & professionals. You can get advice on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines & natural products.
The mobile version of this free resource is available at: http://drugs.mobi/
RxList
Provides guide to prescription drug information including monographs on individual drugs.

Websites

ADA Clinical Practice Guidelines and Dental Evidence
A very good resource for comprehensive clinical practice guidelines, covering topics such as managing dental pain, caries treatments, and antibiotic usage etc. It includes systematic reviews summarizing scientific literature on Teledentistry, HPV vaccine effectiveness and caries detection technologies. Educational resources, including instructional videos, are also available to help incorporate scientific evidence into clinical practice.
Canadian Dental Association - OASIS
The impetus for JCDA-OASIS (the Online Advice and Searchable Information System) arose from a series of discussions with Canadian general practice dentists who identified the need for concise clinical information and a decision support tool that would assist them in their everyday practice. It features:
- Oasis Discussions: reliable expert response for clinical questions, clinical cases, or emergency scenarios
- CDA Essentials: available online in both English and French, the official print publication of CDA keeps dentists informed about current news, issues, and clinical information.
You can also download the free CDA Oasis mobile app for iOS and Android: https://www.cda-adc.ca/en/services/app/
Dental Elf
A daily blog to provide high quality brief summaries highlighting evidence-based publications relevant to dental practice in the UK and around the world created by Derek Richards, the Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry, Editor of the Evidence-based Dentistry Journal, Consultant in Dental Public Health, a Dental Public Health Consultant with Douglas Badenoch, an Information Scientist.
MEDLINEplus: Dental Health
Information for patients, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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