Abstract

CARDOZO MONTILLA, Miguel Angel; SORATE MARCANO, Yolymar  and  HERRERA GALARRAGA, Marvic. Odontología Basada en la Evidencia: Paradigma del Siglo XXI. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2009, vol.47, n.2, pp.467-473. ISSN 0001-6365.

The evidence based dentistry, derived from the principles and methodology of the evidence based medicine, it constitutes a new approach of the attention by means of which it is possible to integrate of judicious way all the information available, clinically relevant, to the experience of the professional, with the purpose to offer to the patient the best options to solve its problem of health, considering the patient’s needs and preferences. The evidence is hierarchized, within the framework of the clinical epidemiology, according to the design of investigation that originated it, and in this sense the systematic reviews and the meta-analysis, for example, generate a greater degree of trustworthiness because they reunite and interpret of coherent form the results of randomized controlled trials. The knowledge of this valuable tool can contribute to the profit of the effectiveness in the domain of the health’s organizations when combining the rational use of resources, the criterions of quality and the search of the patient’s satisfaction.

Keywords : Evidence based dentistry; relevant information; systematic search; critical evaluation; validity; decision making; quality.