Sources of Continuing Education for Dentists: National Dental Practice–Based Research Network, April 2012 through December 2018
| Any Study Training | ||
| Studies for which the practitioner received training | N | (n = 798) |
| Cracked tooth registry (CTR) | 242 | 30% |
| Factors in successful crowns | 179 | 22% |
| Management of dentin hypersensitivity (MDH) | 165 | 21% |
| Management of painful temporomandibular disorders (TMD) | 149 | 19% |
| Predicting outcomes of root canal treatment (PREDICT) | 127 | 16% |
| Suspicious occlusal caries lesions (SOCL) | 100 | 12% |
| Anterior openbite malocclusions in adults (AOB) | 97 | 12% |
| Quit advisor DDS | 74 | 9% |
| Risk of oral cancer study (ROCS) | 38 | 5% |
| Any video | ||
| Video topic | N | (n = 1757) |
| Orientation | 1560 | 89% |
| International oral health conference | 248 | 14% |
| Human subjects protection | 169 | 10% |
| ROCS study results | 120 | 7% |
| PREDICT study results | 64 | 4% |
| Opioid prescribing study results | 6 | <1% |
| Knowledge networks study results | 5 | <1% |
| Any webinar | ||
| Webinar topics: study results for | N | (n = 170) |
| Opioid prescribing | 67 | 39% |
| PREDICT | 43 | 25% |
| SOCL | 41 | 24% |
| Factors in successful crowns | 35 | 21% |
| Knowledge networks | 26 | 15% |
| Any network | ||
| Symposium | ||
| Network symposium attendances (Number) | N | (n = 226) |
| 1 | 149 | 66% |
| 2 | 49 | 22% |
| 3 or more | 28 | 12% |
| Any regional | ||
| network meeting | ||
| Network meeting attendances (Number) | N | (n = 993) |
| 1 | 519 | 52% |
| 2 | 222 | 22% |
| 3 | 111 | 11% |
| 4 | 74 | 7% |
| 5 | 45 | 5% |
| 6 or more | 22 | 2% |