Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dentistry/Article rating

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Importance Rating
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out which rating to use...I think this system might be great for an overall encyclopedia, but there are too many categories for the dental section. Enamel pearl, for instance...initially I gave it a TOP. That was prior to reading the dental method for classification...I figured people on every continent know about enamel pearls. But with your method, I knocked it down to a MID, because, well, what's an enamel pearl? We learn about it in school like we're going to see it on every patient...same with Wegener's granulomatosis. Then it's on every exam. Then we never see or hear about it. What could possibly be less important than an enamel pearl. Maybe an enamel knot or cord. So those two get a LOW? I mean, this starts off too subjective to begin with, and now it's like intraoperator subjectivity from day to day makes this system way too volatile. DRosenbach (Talk 18:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Good day and thank you for your work on dental crowns, their need, structure and effectiveness.

Along with this article Wikipedia should present the newly invented manner of effectively protecting badly decayed or broken teeth with a "direct" crowning procedure now identified as the "'Carlson Restorative Crown (CRC). The process and concept can be viewed at  and has been published in Dentistry Today Feb. 1999, Popular Mechanics 1998, Journal Academy of General Dentistry October 2003, and Dentistry Today October 2006.

Demonstrated in those articles and on web site noted prviously is how a tooth can be reconstructed, in situ, with current space age composites. In this methodology there is no need for radical tooth reduction (often leading irreversible gangrenous pulpitis), impressions, bite registrations, temporization, laboratory procedures, or second visits!

I believe Wikipedia should present a full section on this approach.

Sincerely, with respect, I AM Truth, Dr. Ronald S. Carlson agent Syntro-Research, Inc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.253.117.236 (talk) 19:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Halitosis unrated
suggest importance = high; quality = poor

Halitosis may be the third most common complaint of patients visiting a dentist, so I would say it is an important topic, and the page needs attention. Thanks lesion (talk) 16:01, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Why has the article on Tooth impaction received a Stub-Class rating on the quality scale
the article on Tooth impaction received a Stub-Class rating on the quality scale. It has been edited and citations, added. Can a review be done once more?


 * 1) Anupama Srinivas (talk) 10:43, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Article ratings are often out of date. The assessment was carried out on this page in 2009, when it probably was significantly less of an article than it is now. I agree the article could no longer be called a stub, I will re-grade it to C. A few reasons for not grading it B are that it needs a bit more work to comply with various manuals of style and wikipedia policies. I will comment further on the article's talk page if you are interested in improving it further. For any higher grade than B, a good article nomination would be needed. Lesion  ( talk ) 16:12, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Polyphyodont unrated
rating pls. Mion (talk) 11:34, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * thanks Mion (talk) 12:13, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

only US perspective
In some countries in Europe, dentists are not doctors. They're not called dr., don't have a DMD/DDS. The profession varies widely by country. Please update w/ more global research. 108.18.38.208 (talk) 16:11, 13 February 2014 (UTC)Mark P
 * Most European countries require a university degree of 5 years to practice dentistry. By convention, they may not assume the title Dr, but this is not really the case in modern times...many have adopted the title. Also, did you mean to place this comment on talk:Dentist or somewhere? Lesion  ( talk ) 19:21, 13 February 2014 (UTC)