Abstract

American Dental Association defines evidence-based dentistry as a method of making oral health-care decisions that involve the careful consideration of important clinical scientific evidence relating to the patient's oral health, medical condition, history, as well as the dentist's clinical expertise and the patient needs and preferences. Evidence -based dentistry combines the best information available with clinical competence as well as the requirements and preferences of the patient. The ultimate goal of restorative dentistry has always been optimizing tooth shape. Not only is it necessary to recreate the missing tooth anatomy, but it is also necessary to restore optimal form and function. Patients are increasingly favouring restorative treatment over extractions. The purpose of this research is to review the available information about the implementation of evidence-based dentistry in restorative dentistry. Evidence-based dentistry is beneficial in a variety of ways, and it is quickly becoming an important aspect of patient treatment, dental education, and research. In restorative dentistry, core outcome sets are needed, since they may boost the relevance of measured outcomes for all stakeholders, not only dental researchers, and limit the danger of bias reporting, as well as improve trial comparability, enhancing synthesis. Evidence-based dentistry does have the potential to usher the dental profession into a new age. Field of dentistry must take steps to keep up with the current evidence-based care paradigm. Despite the fact that evidence-based dentistry is widely accepted, its implementation in clinical practice is far behind especially in the field of restorative dentistry

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