ABSTRACT
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a psychological measure designed to determine personality preferences, learning styles and management styles and to assist with career choices. The authors surveyed 1,117 practicing dentists to determine if the MBTI was useful in determining which respondents were most likely to be specialists. They found no significant differences between general practitioners and specialists.
Subject(s)
Career Choice , Dentists/psychology , Personality Inventory/statistics & numerical data , Adult , Attitude of Health Personnel , Chi-Square Distribution , Extraversion, Psychological , Female , Forecasting , General Practice, Dental/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Introversion, Psychological , Male , Psychometrics , Reproducibility of Results , Specialties, Dental/statistics & numerical data , ThinkingABSTRACT
From 1968 to 1992 sixty-two cases of tumors of minor salivary glands were diagnosed from a Venezuelan population at the Oral Histopathology Laboratory of the Central University of Venezuela School of Dentistry. The diagnosis of individual tumors was based on the 1991 World Health Organization classification. Tumors were analyzed considering histological type, age and sex of the patient, and intraoral location. Pleomorphic adenomas constituted the most common histological diagnosis of the benign sample (71%), and 62% of the malignant tumors were diagnosed as mucoepidermoid carcinomas. The principal location was the palate, and a marked female prevalence was observed. Geographic differences appear to exist when compared with results of studies representing a cross-section of different world population groups.
Subject(s)
Salivary Gland Neoplasms/epidemiology , Salivary Glands, Minor/pathology , Adenoma, Pleomorphic/epidemiology , Adenoma, Pleomorphic/pathology , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Black People , Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid/epidemiology , Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid/pathology , Child , Cohort Studies , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Humans , Incidence , Male , Middle Aged , Palatal Neoplasms/epidemiology , Palatal Neoplasms/pathology , Prevalence , Retrospective Studies , Salivary Gland Neoplasms/pathology , Sex Factors , Venezuela/epidemiology , White People , World Health OrganizationABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to identify the perceived stress of dental students across the entire curriculum (D1-D4 years). The dental environmental stress (DES) questionnaire was administered to 244 (90.4 percent) dental students during 1990. Significant differences were found for 12 questionnaire items across four classes. For male-female comparisons, significant differences were found for 17 questionnaire items, all perceived as more stressful by females; and between classes, significant differences were accounted for by three questionnaire items. Comparisons with previous dental students (1980s) on the identical questionnaire were noted.