I would like dental care professionals to be aware that participation in Dental PBRN Japan holds the promise of great professional pleasure and satisfaction through the conduct of research while continuing practice. The questions you may encounter in routine practice can become the subject of “clinical research,” and the findings will serve as actionable scientific evidence.
The results of your research may have the power to transform healthcare systems and policies. Clinical “questions” and “subjects of research” can be identified only by you, the ones who are in clinical practice. Thus, numerous topics of immediate research interest can be found in routine practice. If you are like most dentists, you encounter numerous issues in routine clinical practice. Many of these will not have been previously studied, but are nevertheless of great clinical importance.
The opportunity is yours to join the Dental PBRN Japan and provide the world with answers to clinical questions while providing dental care.
Director of Dental PBRN Japan
Naoki Kakudate D.D.S, Ph. D, M.P.H.
(Professor, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Kyushu Dental University)
