Guided discovery learning: A follow-up study of try-it-yourself surgery and subsequent video-assisted teaching for oral surgical skills training.
Kristian KnihaAnna BockFlorian PetersMarius HeitzerFrank HölzleStefan RaithAli ModabberStephan Christian MöhlhenrichPublished in: European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe (2022)
The dental students in this study successfully learned a complex oral surgical procedure, the Rehrmann flap technique, for closing oro-antral communications. The participants indicated their high satisfaction with the teaching approach. After 122 days of follow-up, their practical and theoretical test scores remained high and presented no significant difference, which suggests that the newly learnt individual skills were retained.