Most of us are involved in dental research. However, we all face difficulties at some step of our work. However, there are certain issues that are particular to dentistry that our statistician friends don't understand. This article can help to bridge that gap and also help us to do our job better. Do you agree
http://www.jodjournal.com/article/S0300-5712(13)00058-4/fulltext
Sometimes it is difficult the communication between statisticians and dentists. However, well trained statisticians or the ones that work in the best dental journals understand better our work than many dentists.
The aricle, in my opinion, clarifies various issues of statistics commonly used in dentistry.
Dear Maria,
yes, I do clearly agree with the article.
The problems we face in dental research are very scarce budgets when compared to medicine. When you do not have money for your research you can hardly engage in high level studies, add of statisticians, extended ethical approval, etc.
Evidence currently gives dental research and systematic review poor marks!
Dear Liviu,
There is another problem here. Our statisticians at time don't understand the dynamics of dental research. I was once astonished to hear the remarks of an statistician who was insisting that whole mouth is one variable while infact we know that each tooth surface is a separate variable.
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