Culture of Science and Clinical Excellence

Abstract

search- based education, and evidence-based clinical practices within dental education and professional environments. It reflects how the dental profession values critical thinking, technological advancements, and multidisciplinary approaches to improve both education and patient care¹. Though this understanding is a widely accepted premise today, there was a well-recognized absence of a culture of science in dental education three decades ago². There has been an exponential growth of scientific innovations and technological advances over the past years in dental field. Within the sphere of contribution of biological and digital revolutions have greatly affected dental education and daily clinical practice, biomimetics, personalized dental medicine regenerative dentistry, nanotechnology to name a few. Moreover, high-end simulations creating a unique virtual reality, acquiring of detailed genomic information, and further stem cell studies are moving dentistry to a different dimension¹.