Peer-Reviewed Publications

2012

Barasch A, Safford MM, Palmore R, Gesko D, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Random blood glucose testing in dental practice: a community-based feasibility study from The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. Journal of the American Dental Association 2012; 143(3):262-269.

2011

Riley JL III, Gordan VV, Ajmo CT, Bockman H, Jackson MB, Gilbert GH, for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Dentists’ use of caries risk assessment and individualized caries prevention for their adult patients: findings from The Dental PBRN. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 2011; 39(6):564-573.

Nascimento MM, Gordan VV, Qvist V, Bader JD, Rindal DB, Williams OD, Gewartowski D, Fellows JL, Litaker MS, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Restoration of non-carious defects by dentists in The Dental PBRN. Journal of the American Dental Association 2011; 142(12):1368-1375.

Please click here to see four supplementary tables that accompany this article. These tables provide information on: (1) the distribution of the number of restorations placed due to NCTD, per patient and by reason for restoration; (2) the multiple logistic regression analysis of the reasons for restoring NCTD; (3) the number and percentage of DPBRN dentists and patients participating in the study, and the number and percentage of restorations placed by dentists from each DPBRN region; and (4) the distribution of the reasons for the restoration, by tooth characteristics and type of restorative material used.

Makhija SK, Gordan VV, Gilbert GH, Litaker MS, Rindal DB, Pihlstrom DJ, Qvist V for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Practitioner, patient, and carious lesion characteristics associated with type of restorative material: findings from The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. Journal of the American Dental Association 2011; 142(6):622-632.

Riley JL III, Gordan VV, Rouisse KM, McClelland J, Gilbert GH, for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Differences in male and female dentists’ practice patterns regarding diagnosis and treatment of dental caries: findings from The Dental PBRN. Journal of the American Dental Association 2011; 142(4):429-440.

Gilbert GH, Richman JS, Gordan VV, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Benjamin PL, Wallace-Dawson M, Williams OD for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Lessons learned during the conduct of clinical studies in The Dental PBRN. Journal of Dental Education 2011; 75(4):453-465.

Barasch A, Cunha-Cruz J, Curro FA, Hujoel P, Sung AH, Vena D, Voinea-Griffin AE for the CONDOR Collaborative Group. Risk factors for osteonecrosis of the jaws: case-control study from the CONDOR Dental PBRN. Journal of Dental Research 2011; 90(4):439-444.
[This was a case-control study done in the three CONDOR networks collectively]

Fellows JL, Rindal DB, Barasch A, Gullion CM, Rush W, Pihlstrom DJ, Richman J for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. ONJ in two Dental Practice-Based Research Network regions. Journal of Dental Research 2011; 90(4):433-438.
[This was a retrospective cohort study done in DPBRN only and was a separately funded study using a different study sample]

Gordan VV, Riley JL III, Carvalho RM, Snyder J, Sanderson JL, Anderson M, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Methods used by Dental Practice-Based Network (DPBRN) dentists to diagnose dental caries. Operative Dentistry 2011; 36(1):2-11.

Barasch A, Safford MM, McNeal SF, Robinson M, Grant VS, Gilbert GH. Patterns of post-operative pain medication prescription following invasive dental surgical procedures. Special Care in Dentistry 2011; 31(2):53-57.

Qu H, Houston TK II, Williams JH, Gilbert GH, Shewchuk RM for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Cognitive mapping tobacco control advice for dentistry: a Dental PBRN study. American Journal of Health Behavior 2011; 35(2): 228-239.

2010

Riley JL III, Richman JS, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Qvist V, Gilbert GH, Gordan VV for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Use of caries preventive agents in children: findings from The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry 2010; 8(4):351-359.

Gilbert GH, Richman JS, Qvist V, Pihlstrom DJ, Foy PJ, Gordan VV for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Change in stated clinical practice associated with participation in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. General Dentistry 2010; 58(6): 520-528.

Materials that were used for DPBRN’s first network-wide meeting of practitioner-investigators from all five of its regions are available here. This meeting took place in Atlanta, GA from May 15-17, 2008. Please click here to see the agenda for the meeting. Please click here to see the summary of findings from the DPBRN "Assessment of Caries Diagnosis and Caries Treatment Questionnaire" and its accompanying letter, which was mailed to attendees forty-five days in advance of the meeting. This practitioner-specific report was sent to each practitioner-investigator, and it had his or her own answers to each question along with the summary of responses from all practitioner-investigators. Click here to see the questionnaire that was completed by all practitioner-investigator attendees at the meeting’s registration desk before they entered the meeting. Click here to see the questionnaire that each practitioner-investigator attendee completed soon after the meeting ended. Another table (click here) shows the characteristics of the 126 practitioner-investigators who attended the meeting.

Rindal DB, Gordan VV, Litaker MS, Bader JD, Fellows JL, Qvist V, Wallace-Dawson MC, Anderson ML, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Methods dentists use to diagnose primary caries lesions prior to restorative treatment: findings from The Dental PBRN. Journal of Dentistry 2010; 38(12): 1027-1032.

Houston TK, Coley HL, Sadasivam RS, Ray MN, Williams JH, Allison JJ, Gilbert GH, Kiefe CI, Kohler C for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Impact of content-specific email reminders on provider participation in an online intervention: a Dental PBRN study. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2010; 160: 801-805.

Gilbert GH, Litaker MS, Pihlstrom DJ, Amundson CW, Gordan VV for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Rubber dam use during routine operative dentistry procedures: findings from The Dental PBRN. Operative Dentistry 2010; 35(5): 491-499.

Nixdorf DR, Moana-Filho EJ, Law AS, McGuire LA, Hodges JS, John MT. Frequency of non-odontogenic pain after endodontic therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Endodontics 2010; 36(9): 1494-1498.
[This article was featured and summarized in Evidence-Based Dentistry 2010; 11(4): 114.]

Riley JL III, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Gilbert GH, Ajmo CT, Amundson C, Anderson GA, Gordan VV for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Preferences for caries prevention agents in adult patients: findings from The Dental PBRN. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 2010; 38(4): 360-370.
[This article was reviewed for its contribution to the literature in: Laurence B. Article analysis and evaluation: Dentists in a Practice-based Research Network Show Considerable Variation in their Choices for Caries Prevention Agents. Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice 2011;11(2):107-108.] The table here presents the demographic information for participating DPBRN dentists. The first figure (click here) shows the occlusal lesion clinical case scenario and the second figure (click here) shows the interproximal lesion clinical case scenario.

Nascimento MM, Bader JD, Qvist V, Litaker MS, Williams OD, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Gilbert GH, Gordan VV for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Concordance between pre-operative and post-operative assessments of primary caries lesion depths: results from The Dental PBRN. Operative Dentistry 2010; 35(4): 391-398.

Riley III JL, Gordan VV, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Williams OD, Ritchie LK Jr, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. General practitioners’ use of caries-preventive agents in adult patients versus pediatric patients: findings from The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. Journal of the American Dental Association 2010; 141(6): 679-687.

Nascimento MM, Gordan VV, Qvist V, Litaker MS, Rindal DB, Williams OD, Fellows JL, Ritchie LK Jr, Mjör IA McClelland J, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Reasons for placement of restorations on previously un-restored tooth surfaces by dentists in The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. Journal of the American Dental Association 2010; 141(4): 441-448.

Gordan VV, Bader JD, Garvan CW, Richman JS, Qvist V, Fellows JL, Rindal DB, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Restorative treatment thresholds for occlusal primary caries by dentists in The Dental PBRN. Journal of the American Dental Association 2010; 141(2):171-184. Please click here to see a summary of characteristics of eligible dentists who participated for the "Assessment of Caries Diagnosis and Caries Treatment Questionnaire" compared to those who did not.

Voinea-Griffin A, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Barasch A, Gilbert GH, Safford MM. Pay for performance: will dentistry follow? BMC Oral Health 2010; 10(9): 1-8.

Riley JL III, Qvist V, Fellows JL, Rindal DB, Richman JS, Gilbert GH, Gordan VV for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Dentists’ use of caries risk assessment in children: findings from The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. General Dentistry 2010; 58(3): 230-234.

Gilbert GH, Qvist V, Moore SD, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Gordan VV, Williams OD for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Institutional Review Board and regulatory solutions in The Dental PBRN. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 2010; 70(1): 19-27.

Gilbert GH, Tilashalski KR, Litaker MS, McNeal SF, Boykin MJ, Kessler AW for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Outcomes of root canal treatment in Dental PBRN practices. General Dentistry 2010; 58(1): 28-36.

Voinea-Griffin A, Rindal DB, Fellows JL, Barasch A, Gilbert GH, Safford MM for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Pay for performance in dentistry: what we know. Journal for Healthcare Quality 2010; 32(1): 51-58.

Williams OD, Lindblad AS, Leroux BG for the CONDOR Collaborative Group. Data acquisition and analysis. Section in a book chapter entitled “Dental Practice-Based Research Networks” (DeNucci DJ, CONDOR Collaborative Group). In: “Clinical Research in Oral Health” (Giannobile WV, Burt BA, Genco RJ, eds.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Hoboken, NJ. 2010. [the CONDOR group collectively decided that this should be classified in the peer-reviewed publications category]

Sung A, Latzke B, Mathews A for the CONDOR Collaborative Group. Study deployment, implementation, and coordination. Section in a book chapter entitled “Dental Practice-Based Research Networks” (DeNucci DJ, CONDOR Collaborative Group). In: “Clinical Research in Oral Health” (Giannobile WV, Burt BA, Genco RJ, eds.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Hoboken, NJ. 2010. [the CONDOR group collectively decided that this should be classified in the peer-reviewed publications category]

Rindal DB, Pihlstrom D, for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Practice-based research in large group dental practices. Section in a book chapter entitled “Dental Practice-Based Research Networks” (DeNucci DJ, CONDOR Collaborative Group). In: “Clinical Research in Oral Health” (Giannobile WV, Burt BA, Genco RJ, eds.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Hoboken, NJ. 2010. [the CONDOR group collectively decided that this should be classified in the peer-reviewed publications category]

Gilbert GH, Williams OD, Moore SD for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Participant protection and scientific peer review in dental PBRNs. Section in a book chapter entitled “Dental Practice-Based Research Networks” (DeNucci DJ, CONDOR Collaborative Group). In: “Clinical Research in Oral Health” (Giannobile WV, Burt BA, Genco RJ, eds.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Hoboken, NJ. 2010. [the CONDOR group collectively decided that this should be classified in the peer-reviewed publications category]

2009

Gordan VV, Garvan CW, Richman JS, Fellows JL, Rindal DB, Qvist V, Heft MW, Williams OD, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. How dentists diagnose and treat defective restorations: evidence from The Dental PBRN. Operative Dentistry 2009; 34(6): 664-673.

Gordan VV, Garvan CW, Heft MW, Fellows J, Qvist V, Rindal DB, Gilbert GH for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Restorative treatment thresholds for interproximal primary caries based on radiographic images: findings from The Dental PBRN. General Dentistry 2009; 57(6): 654-663.

Benjamin PL for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Promoting evidence-based dentistry through The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. Journal of Evidence-based Dental Practice 2009; 9(4): 194-196.

Makhija SK, Gilbert GH, Rindal DB, Benjamin PL, Richman JS, Pihlstrom DJ, Qvist V for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Practices participating in a dental PBRN have substantial and advantageous diversity even though as a group they have much in common with dentists at large. BMC Oral Health 2009; 9(1): 26-35.

Makhija SK, Gilbert GH, DB Rindal, PL Benjamin, JS Richman, DJ Pihlstrom for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Dentists in practice-based research networks have much in common with dentists at large: evidence from The Dental PBRN. General Dentistry 2009; 57(3): 270-275.

Boykin MJ, Gilbert GH, Tilashalski KR, Litaker MS. Racial differences in baseline treatment preference as predictors of receiving a dental extraction versus root canal therapy during 48 months of follow-up. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 2009; 69(1): 41-47.

Please click here to see two tables that accompany this article. The first table shows predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics of persons in the sample, by race. The second table shows a “parsimonious” regression of receipt of extraction or root canal treatment during follow-up, in which only two variables (worst periodontal attachment loss and the CHOICE variable) are modeled as predictors of this outcome. The model fit of this regression model (Model 3 in the table labeled A2) is statistically the same as the model fit in Model 2 of the same table.

2008

Houston TK, Richman JS, Ray MN, Allison JJ, Gilbert GH, Shewchuk RM, Kohler CL, Kiefe CI for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. Internet-delivered support for tobacco control in dental practice: randomized controlled trial in The Dental PBRN. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2008; 10(5): e38.

Please click here to see two tables that accompany this article. The first table shows practice characteristics of practices with and without follow-up data in the Dental Tobacco Control.net clinical trial. The second table shows pre-intervention patient-reported provider performance.

Gilbert GH, Bader JD, Litaker MS, Shelton BJ, Duncan RP. Patient-level and practice-level characteristics associated with receipt of preventive dental services: 48-month incidence. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 2008; 68(4): 209-217.

Please click here to see Tables A1 – A3 that accompany this article. An additional table (Table A4) has the baseline characteristics of the 597 subjects who were included in the data analyses for this paper. To see that table, please click here.

Barasch A, Safford MM, Litaker MS, Gilbert GH. Risk factors for oral post-operative infection in patients with diabetes. Special Care in Dentistry 2008; 28(4): 159-166.

Houston TK, Richman JS, Coley HL, Ray MN, Allison JJ, Gilbert GH, Gordan JS, Kiefe CI for The DPBRN Investigator Group. Does delayed measurement affect patient reports of provider performance? Implications for performance measurement of tobacco cessation: a Dental PBRN study. BMC Health Services Research 2008; 8(100): 1-8.

Mjör IA, Holst D, Eriksen HM. Caries and restoration prevention. Journal of the American Dental Association 2008; 139(5): 565-570.

Gilbert GH, Williams OD, Rindal DB, Pihlstrom DJ, Benjamin PL, Wallace MA for The DPBRN Collaborative Group. The creation and development of The Dental Practice-Based Research Network. Journal of the American Dental Association 2008; 139(1): 74-81.

Mjör IA, Davis ME, Abu-Hanna A. CAD/CAM restorations and secondary caries: a literature review with illustrations. Dental Update 2008; 35(2):118-20.

Abu-Hanna A, Mjör IA. Stain vs caries. Operative Dentistry 2008; 33(1):108-110.

2007

Houston TK, Funkhouser E, Allison JJ, Levine DA, Williams OD, Kiefe CI. Multiple measures of provider participation in Internet delivered interventions. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2007; 129(Pt 2): 1401-1405.

Mjör IA. Practice-based dental research. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation 2007; 34(12): 913-920.

Mjör IA. Minimum requirements for new dental materials. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation 2007; 34(12): 907-912.

Gilbert GH, Litaker MS, Makhija SK.  Differences in quality between dental practices associated with race and income mix of patients. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2007; 18(4):847-867.

Please click here to see a table of means and standard errors of characteristics of dental practice(s) attended during follow-up, by race and level of formal education of the participant. This supplements a similar table in the manuscript that shows results stratified by household income instead of education. Please click here to see a table of means and standard errors of characteristics of dental practice(s) attended, by approach to care.

2006

Gilbert GH, Weems RA, Litaker MS, Shelton BJ. Practice characteristics associated with receipt of dental diagnostic radiographs. Health Services Research 2006; 41(5): 1915-1937

Gilbert GH, Shewchuk RM, Litaker MS. Effect of dental practice characteristics on racial differences in patient-specific tooth loss. Medical Care 2006; 44(5): 414-420.

Please click here to see two tables that accompany this article.