Background: The dental quality alliance of the American Dental Association developed quality and performance measure concepts (QMCs) for pediatric dentistry to identify variations in care and to improve quality of care. Objectives: This study evaluated the relationship between the proposed QMCs and oral health, measured as caries status. Methodology: Parents/guardians of new patients presenting to the Nationwide Children's Hospital Dental Clinic for a nonurgent hygiene appointment were asked to complete a 10-question survey that reflected the QMCs. An oral examination was completed on each patient to determine his/her caries status. Results: For the majority of the QMCs evaluated in the study, there was no statistically significant difference in caries status between patients who had attended care according to the QMCs and those who had not. Conclusions: From the findings, attending care as outlined by the QMCs may be no better than counting procedures as a measure of quality oral health-care outcomes.

Aim: This study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge and level of awareness about Burning mouth syndrome among dental students. Method: The study was carried out among the dental students.A self-constructed questionnaire was made and given to a total of 100 students. The answers were recorded and converted into numbers and percentages.Results: The results of the study reveal that undergraduate dental students have a fair knowledge about burning mouth syndrome.Conclusion: There is an increased need for comprehensive educational programmes and clinical exposure for students to be aware about burning mouth syndrome.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of recent diagnosticaids for oral cancer among dental students.Materials and Methods: This study was conducted among 100 students using a 15-item self-administeredquestionnaire during COVID-19 pandemic period involving both undergraduates and postgraduate dentalstudents.It was formatted on google forms and shared through social media. The data collected was analysedstatistically.Results: A total of 100 dental studentsparticipated in the survey. The total knowledge, attitude, and practiceabout recent diagnostic aids for oral cancer (based on summing all the positive responses -- for all therelevant questions -- and calculating the percentage) was 90% for post-graduates (highest), 88% for internsgroup, 84% for final years and 80% for third years (least) respectively.The results of this study show thatpostgraduates had good knowledge about recent diagnostic aids for oral cancer when compared to othergroups.Conclusion: These findings concerning dental students suggests that they have sufficient knowledge in therecent diagnostic methods of oral canceras they are the ones who have higher chances of diagnosing oralcancer at earlier stages as they routinely examine oral cavity.

One of the global health issues is Oral cancer, which has an increased death rate. Awareness of oral cancer screening is important for oral health care professionals for early detection and improving the patients' survival rate. Attitude towards oral cancer awareness and knowledge of oral cancer screening are the key factors that impact oral cancer awareness success. Materials and Methods: To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of dental practitioners and dental students towards screening for oral pre-cancer and cancer. This study included dental practitioners working in various academic institutions and private practitioners in Chennai. Participants were asked to fill in age, gender, designation, and experience. A structured questionnaire consisting of 10 questions, each having four options, was administered to the participants. The data collected was 100 responses analyzed by statistical package for the social science (spss inc., version 16 for, Chicago, IL, USA). Simple descriptive statistics were used to describe the distribution of data collected. T-test and ANOVA were employed to assess the statistically significant difference in the KAP scores between different groups. Results: The response rate for the present study was 100%. 37% of general dental practitioners reported that they routinely do a thorough oral examination for all the patients,52% agree that they are adequately trained to examine patients for oral pre-cancer and cancer screening,8% of them reported that they never do toluidine blue staining for patients with oral lesion. Majority(57) of them agree that they would recommend biopsy for suspected cases of oral cancer. Only 9% of the participants were aware of the time required for intraoral screening examination. 31% of them were aware of the risk of malignant transformation in a white lesion. 73% of the participants were aware of the occurrence of oral cancer in non - tobacco users was rare. 53% of agree that thorough intraoral examination for oral cancer will reduce oral cancer mortality and morbidity.