Presentation Date
Winter 12-19-2025
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Description
This presentation is designed for Dental Services Journal Club attendees as Session 1 of an article‑based workshop series on clinical scholarship, using three exemplar papers on drug‑induced gingival overgrowth (Mavrogiannis 2006, Fardal 2015, Mawardi 2021) to illustrate how to read, interpret, and critically appraise different study designs (narrative review, retrospective cohort, systematic review). The session emphasizes understanding methods and limitations (e.g., non‑systematic literature searching, confounding and missing data, lack of baseline matching, single‑center bias, heterogeneous treatments), interpreting risk of bias and evidence levels, and applying structured critical appraisal language so that dental clinicians can more confidently evaluate periodontal and pharmacologic evidence in real‑world cases.
Document Type
Presentation
Conference/Presentation Location
Dental Services Journal Club, UNM Health Sciences Center, December 19, 2025
Language
English
Keywords
Clinical scholarship, dental journal club, critical appraisal, study design, retrospective cohort, systematic review
Disciplines
Library and Information Science | Medical Education | Medical Sciences
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Sponsors
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (UNM HSLIC)
Rights
Copyright 2025 by Evelyn Wang. All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
Wang, E. (2025, December 19). Powering Up Clinical Scholarship in Dental Journal Club: Article Review Session 1. Dental Services Journal Club, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center.
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Comments
This presentation uses three gingival overgrowth articles (narrative review, retrospective cohort, systematic review) as teaching cases to help dental services clinicians practice structured article review, discuss confounding and bias, and strengthen their ability to interpret and apply evidence in periodontal and pharmacologic decision‑making.