ABSTRACT
Since the number of dental journals grows bigger every year it becomes important for the practitioner researcher teacher and editorial stuff to be informed for the content of the journals. The scientific reports in four Greek dental journals were recorded and evaluated according to several parameters. All the reports published in the years 1982-1986 were recorded and these were covering more than 90% of the total number of Greek scientific articles of this period. The results revealed an association between field and journal as well as between type of the report and journal, type and number of reports, type and number of authors, type and volume of the report, type and presence of tables, figures or photographs, type and number of references and type and cost of the report. It was also shown that in their largest percent the reports were dealing with Oral Medicine (16%), were of the review type (56.1%), were written by only one author (37.1%), contained no tables (58.8%) or diagrams (53.7%), contained photographs (63.8%), had references on foreign articles (87.7%) and cost not more than 8.000 drs (75.5%).
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Journalism, Dental , Periodicals as Topic/statistics & numerical data , Factor Analysis, Statistical , Greece , HumansABSTRACT
This article presents the results of a clinical study conducted in the department of Operative Dentistry of the University of Athens. The reasons for placing and replacing restorations, the restorative material used, patient's age and sex, teeth and surfaces involved and age of replaced restorations were the variables studied in 1520 restorations. The results revealed that 53.2% of the restorations were placed for the first time. 92.6% of the new restorations were placed due to primary caries. Secondary caries were the reasons for the 35% of the replaced with amalgam restorations. Secondary caries and color mismatch were the reasons for the 25% and 23.2% respectively of the replaced with composite restorations.
