Ramesh, Arjun, Junxi Guo, Allen, Jayeshkumar Patel, Het, Huang, James, Huang, Chen-Chia, Martins de Mello Neto, Joao, and Rodrigues Amaral, Rodrigo (2024) The impact of magnification on undergraduate dental students' performance during cavity preparations: A systematic review. Journal of Dental Education. (In Press)

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Abstract

Purpose/Objectives: Loupe magnification is a commonly utilized tool within dental education due to its proposed benefits of improving working posture, visual acuity, and procedural quality. Although procedural quality has been researched at the graduate level, literature encompassing the undergraduate level remains scarce. Therefore, this systematic review aims to critically assess the available literature to ascertain the effects of loupe magnification on the performance of undergraduate dental students’ cavity preparations.

Materials and Methods: A systematic search was conducted across electronic databases, including PubMed, MEDLINE via Ovid, The Cochrane Library for Cochrane Reviews, and Scopus, to identify relevant studies published from inception to February 15, 2023. We included English language studies that evaluated the effect of loupe magnification on the performance of undergraduate dental students in cavity preparations.

Results: In total, six studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The outcomes assessed encompassed tooth preparation accuracy. Of these six articles, one was conducted on endodontic access cavity preparations, four on restorative cavity preparations, and one on nonstandard cavity preparation designs performed on acrylic blocs. Four articles determined that loupes positively impacted undergraduate students’ performance in cavity preparations, while two articles established no significant difference in performance between loupes and naked-eye cavity preparations.

Conclusion: This systematic review suggests that loupe magnification positively impacts undergraduate dental students’ performance in cavity preparations.

Item ID:	82668
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1930-7837
Keywords:	loupes; magnification; systematic review; tooth preparation; undergraduate
Copyright Information:	This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2024 The Authors. Journal of Dental Education published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Dental Education Association.
Date Deposited:	07 May 2024 02:00
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