LibGuides: Dental Medicine: Finding Articles & Databases

Dental Medicine & Related Databases

These databases contain journal articles and other research materials on Dental Medicine. I recommend starting with PubMed or Embase.

Alt-HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
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Articles about complementary and alternative medicine.
Update frequency: quarterly
Alt Health Watch offers abstracts or full text of nearly 50,000 articles from over 160 international, peer-reviewed, and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters about complementary and alternative medicine. Covers such areas of alternative medicine as acupuncture, chiropractic, aromatherapy, naturopathy, homeopathy, osteopathy, and numerous cross-cultural therapies.
BioMedCentral Open Access This link opens in a new window
Over 150 peer-reviewed journals in medicine and biology.
Clinical Key This link opens in a new window
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Clinical Key provides full text access to leading medical textbooks, including specialties in internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, neurology and more.
In addition, Clinical Key provides access to nearly one million images, including tables, graphics and illustrations, as well as to full text journals, an evidence-based, point of care tool, guidelines, multimedia and much more.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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A collection of evidence based medicine databases.
Update frequency: Updated quarterly
Includes Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database, and NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source This link opens in a new window
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Full-text and abstracting for hundreds of dental and oral sciences journals, books, monographs, magazines, and trade periodicals.
Embase This link opens in a new window
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Embase is an index to scholarly articles in medicine, biomedical sciences, and allied health subjects.
Embase content is indexed using a specialized thesaurus, Emtree, that includes biomedical, chemical, and drug terms. There is a special focus on drugs and devices.
Global Health This link opens in a new window
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Global Health is derived from over 7,000 journals, reports, books, and conferences, and contains over 2.7 million scientific records from 1973 to the present.
Published by CAB International, this is the only specialist bibliographic database dedicated to public health, with a focus on international medical and health research, capturing key literature that is not covered by other databases.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
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Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, this comprehensive bibliographic database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
It also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from industrial organizational behavior and education. HaPI includes citations to freestanding instruments as well as instruments that have only appeared in journal or technical reports, published and unpublished.
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
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Natural Medicines is an evidence-based resource for information about natural therapies and medicines, including herbs, dietary supplements, sports supplements, minerals, and vitamins.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles. It also includes additional selected life sciences journals not found in MEDLINE.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is an index to peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science is a platform for Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Index, Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Inspec.
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UpToDate This link opens in a new window
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UpToDate includes expert, peer reviewed, physician written health information.
UpToDate content is reviewed and updated regularly to maintain the currency, accuracy, and relevance of information. It includes: a drug database, drug interactions program, patient information handouts, medical calculators, treatment recommendations, and articles in medical specialty areas.

Featured Evidence-Based Resources

ADA Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry
ADA adopted evidence-based dentistry in 2001 this website has relevant information about EBD for practicing dentists and students.
Bandolier
Concise evidence-based analyses of research reports that have appeared in the literature.

Essential Evidence Plus This link opens in a new window
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Essential Evidence Plus is an evidence-based, point-of-care clinical decision support system that gives you access to over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, and summaries in support of patient care.

TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)
Evidenced based medicine database that is freely available on the Internet. Trip does encourage users to login to the database however you may use Trip without a login.

Anatomy Resources

Anatomy.TV This link opens in a new window
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An online 3D human anatomy modeling and educational resource with augmented reality, smartphone mobile optimization and disease and conditions features.
Thieme Teaching Assistant Anatomy This link opens in a new window
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Complete, full-color anatomical illustrations including Gilroy's Atlas of Anatomy. This resource also offers anatomical illustrations to support Dental Medicine.

MyNCBI Instructions for PubMed

Customize your “tabs” and show UNLV icons by doing the following:

Click "MyNCBI" in the upper right corner.
Click the box in the lower right corner "Filters."
"PubMed" will be selected as the database you are adding filters to.
Click the “Manage Filters.”
Click “LinkOut” and “Libraries.”
Scroll down (almost at end of list) and click “University of Nevada, Las Vegas”or just search for "University of Nevada, Las Vegas."
Check both boxes available.

Your searches will now display "UNLV Find Text" icons for those items available from our university library.

Dental Medicine

Dental Medicine & Related Databases

Featured Evidence-Based Resources

Anatomy Resources

MyNCBI Instructions for PubMed

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