Evidence-Based Orthodontics satisfies the educationaldemands of orthodontics, which demands the integration of the bestresearch evidence with the clinician’s expertise and thepatient’s unique values and circumstances.

This land-mark text is the first to be devoted to themethodology, principles and practice of evidence-based practice inorthodontics. It aims to serve as a reference for those wishing tounderstand the principles of evidence-based practice including thefoundation for clinical study design, epidemiology and thestatistical inferences from data. The ability to define a searchstrategy from established databases and to identify relevantclinical and translational research in the scientific publishedliterature requires a new approach in orthodontic education. Evidence-Based Orthodontics provides a contemporary approachto those strategies in clinical orthodontic practice. The growingability to translate critical appraisals of evidence into clinicalpractice and evaluate clinical evidence for its validity andpotential usefulness requires an understanding of basic elements inepidemiology and biostatistics.

Evidence-Based Orthodontics provides its readers with acogent, clear resource with which to navigate and understand thisimportant subject area. It provides students and practitioners oforthodontics with an indispensible guide to this vital tenet ofeducation, research, and clinical practice.

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