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  • PubMed - Free public version of Medline (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) - Free Access to MEDLINE, the largest scientific database from the National Library of Medicine.

  • COCHRANE COLLABORATION and Cochrane Library (http://www.cochrane.org) - The Cochrane Collaboration is an international network of people helping healthcare providers, policy makers, patients, their advocates and carers, make well-informed decisions about human health care by preparing, updating and promoting the accessibility of Cochrane Reviews (systematic reviews). They investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, and assess the accuracy of a diagnostic tests.

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, (http://www.ahrq.gov) - Evidence Based Medicine, Practice and Clinical Practice Guidelines; Effectiveness of Antimicrobial Adjuncts to Scaling and Root Planing Therapy for Periodontitis

  • Trip database (Turning Research into Practice) (http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html) - The TRIP Database is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.

  • Consumer Reports WebWatch (http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/consumer-reports-webwatch-guidelines.cfm) - A review of basic policies web sites should adopt to promote credibility.

  • Evaluation Criteria from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html) - Beck, Susan. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It’s a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. 1997.

  • The Medical Library Association (http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html#3) - A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web.

  • National Center for Dental Hygiene Research & Practice (http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/dhnet/) - The National Center for Dental Hygiene Research & Practice can serve as an excellent site for graduate students, post-docs and/or faculty on sabbatical related to advancing the dental hygiene research.

  • Food and Drug Administration (http://www.FDA.gov) -

  • Drugs.com - Drug Information Online (http://www.drugs.com) -

  • RxList - The Internet Drug Index (http://www.rxlist.com) -

  • WebMD (http://www.webmd.com) -

The dhnet Web site is hosted and maintained by the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California. For questions and comments regarding the site, please contact Ben Creighton.