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American Dental Educators Association The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is the voice of dental education. ADEA members are more than 20,000 students, faculty, staff and administrators from all of the U.S. and Canadian dental schools, many allied and advanced dental education programs, and numerous corporations working in oral health education.
CDC Oral Health Information from the Centers for Disease Control on oral health.
Cochrane Collabration Cochrane is for anyone interested in using high-quality information to make health decisions. Whether you are a doctor or nurse, patient or carer, researcher or funder, Cochrane evidence provides a powerful tool to enhance your healthcare knowledge and decision making.
Dental Health MEDLINEplus Dental Health from the National Libraries of Medicine website.
Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Mouth and Teeth From the U.S. government National Libraries of Medicine Medline Plus website.
PLOS ONE PLOS ONE features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine.
PubMed PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Suggested hints: do a basic search first, then set filters to subset “Dental Journals” and dates to articles published in the last 5 years. Most articles in PubMed are not full-text, but just show the abstract describing the article—however more full-text articles are becoming available for free.
Texas Dental Hygienists' Association The website for the Texas state chapter of the American Dental Hygienists' Association
UNT Health Science Library Visitor Information

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