Impact of a Tutored Theoretical-Practical Training to Develop Undergraduate Students’ Skills for the Detection of Caries Lesions: Study Protocol for a Multicenter Controlled Randomized Study

Mariana Minatel Braga   ^{1, 2 *} , DDS, PhD ;   Tathiane Larissa Lenzi   ^{1, 3, 4 *} , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Fernanda Rosche Ferreira   ¹ , MSc, DDS ;   Fausto Medeiros Mendes   ¹ , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Daniela Prócida Raggio   ¹ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   José Carlos Imparato   ^{1, 5} , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Marcelo Bonecker   ¹ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Ana Carolina Magalhães   ⁶ , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Linda Wang   ⁶ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Daniela Rios   ⁶ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Juliano Pelim Pessan   ⁷ , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Cristiane Duque   ⁷ , DDS, PhD ;   Maria Augusta Bessa Rebelo   ⁸ , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Ary Oliveira Alves Filho   ⁸ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Marina De Deus Moura Lima   ⁹ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Marcoeli Silva Moura   ⁹ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Alessandro Diogo De Carli   ¹⁰ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Mariane Emi Sanabe   ¹¹ , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Maximiliano Sergio Cenci   ¹² , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Elenara Ferreira Oliveira   ¹² , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Marcos Britto Correa   ¹² , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Rachel Oliveira Rocha   ³ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Julio Eduardo Zenkner   ³ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Pedroza Uribe Murisí   ^{1, 13} , MSc, DDS ;   Stefania Martignon   ^{14, 15} , DDS, PhD ;   Juan Sebastian Lara   ^{1, 16, 17} , DDS, MSc PhD ;   Fatima Gabriela Aquino   ¹⁸ , Msc Candidate, DDS ;   Alfredo Carrillo   ¹⁹ , Msc Candidate, DDS ;   Chun Hung Chu   ²⁰ , MSc, DDS, PhD ;   Chris Deery   ²¹ , MSc, BDS, PhD ;   David Ricketts   ²² , BDS, MSc PhD ;   Paulo Melo   ²³ , PhD ;   José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes   ²⁴ , MSc PhD ;   Kim Rud Ekstrand   ²⁵ , DDS, PhD ;   IuSTC Group   ^{2 *}

¹ Dental School, Pediatric Dentistry Departament, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

² Initiatives for undergraduate Students’ Training in Cariology (IuSTC Group), Multi-institutional group, São Paulo, Brazil

³ Dental School, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

⁴ Dental School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

⁵ CPO Sao Leopoldo Mandic, Campinas, SP, Brazil

⁶ School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Bauru, Brazil

⁷ School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (Unesp), Araçatuba, Brazil

⁸ School of Dentistry, Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

⁹ Postgraduate Programme in Dentistry, Federal University of Piaui, Teresina, PI, Brazil

¹⁰ School of Dentistry, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

¹¹ School of Dentistry "Prof Albino Coimbra Filho", Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

¹² Graduate Program in Dentistry, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil

¹³ Facultad de Odontologia, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

¹⁴ UNICA - Caries Research Unit, Research Vice-rectory,, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia

¹⁵ Dental Innovation and Translation Centre, King's College of London, London, United Kingdom

¹⁶ UNICA - Caries Research Unit, Research Vice-rectory, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia

¹⁷ The Dental Health Unit, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

¹⁸ Carrera de Odontología, Universidad Católica, Asunción, Paraguay

¹⁹ Facultad Autonoma de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay

²⁰ Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

²¹ University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

²² Dundee Dental Hospital and School, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

²³ Faculty of Dental Medicine, EpiUnit, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

²⁴ School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

²⁵ Department of Odontology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

*these authors contributed equally