Evidence-based dentistry (EBD) is the dental part of the more general movement toward evidence-based medicine and other evidence-based practices. The pervasive access to information on the internet includes different aspects of dentistry for both the dentists and patients. This has created a need to ensure that evidence referenced to are valid, reliable and of good quality. Evidence-based dentistry has become more prevalent than ever, as information, derived from high-quality, evidence-based research is made available to clinicians and patients in clinical guidelines. By formulating evidence-based best-practice clinical guidelines that practitioners can refer to with simple chairside and patient-friendly versions, this need can be addressed.
In the present book, ten typical literatures about Evidence-based Dentistry published on international authoritative journals were selected to introduce the worldwide newest progress, which contains reviews or original researches on Evidence-based Dentistry. We hope this book can demonstrate advances in Evidence-based Dentistry as well as give references to the researchers, students and other related people.