Clinical decision-making in prosthodontics, a mobile learning app, is an effective way to improve clinical reasoning skills for planning prosthodontic rehabilitation. It is well received by students.

Awareness and scientific knowledge about the relining materials and procedure should be enhanced within general dental practitioners through CDE program and workshops. Steps should be taken to include relining procedure as a part of undergraduate clinical curriculum as well as internship program.

Background: The mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise or mini-CEX is method for simultaneously assessing the clinical skills of trainees and offering them feedback on their performance. Although it is a well established method of assessment for medical residents, in dental education are very scanty especially in post-graduate education.

Introduction:Impression making is one of the most important steps in prosthodontic rehabilitation of edentulous patients. Zinc oxide eugenol (ZOE) impression paste is the most commonly used material for complete denture wash impression due to its cost-effectiveness and ease of manipulation, while providing the advantage of ability to record fine minute tissue details. Rheological property like flow is a critical factor influencing the success of any impression material, especially in intraoral conditions. Therefore, with so many brands of commercially available impression materials flooding the markets, the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the flow property of four commercially available ZOE impression materials under simulated intraoral condition.Materials and Methods:The testing method used was according to the American Dental Association (ADA) specification no. 16 for ZOE impression pastes.Results:At room temperature, maximum flow was seen with Denzomix followed by Dental Product of India (DPI), Neogenate, and Cavex in descending order, respectively, at 30 s, 1 min, and 10 min of load application. At 37°C in saliva, maximum flow was seen with Denzomix followed by Neogenate, DPI, and Cavex in descending order, respectively, at 30 s, 1 min, and 10 min of load application. Of the four ZOE impression pastes, only the flow of Cavex was considerably less than ADA specified value.Interpretation and Conclusion:Results obtained from this study showed that there is considerable variation in the flow values of different commercially available ZOE impression materials. Change in temperature and presence of saliva had a significant influence on the flow of ZOE impression materials.

Aim: This study evaluated and compared the diametral tensile strength (DTS) of phosphate-bonded investment (PBI) material (ringless) used in removable cast partial denture fabrication. Settings and Design: Comparative - Invitro study. Materials and Methods: The PBI material, Wirovest used in this study was subjected to four different drying methods. A total of 80 specimens were prepared in a cylindrical form; 20 specimens were air dried for 2 h, 20 specimens were dried in a conventional oven at 230°C for 1 h, 20 specimens were dried in microwave oven at 600 W for 10 min, and remaining 20 specimens were dried first in microwave oven and then in conventional oven. The dried specimens were tested at 2-h interval for diametral compression at a crosshead speed of 0.5 cm/min. Statistical Analysis Used: Pairwise analysis. Results: The microwave drying technique and drying by combination method resulted in greater DTS, respectively. Conclusion: Within the limitation of this study, PBI specimens dried in microwave oven at 600W for 10 min increased the diametral strength and are also a time-saving procedure.