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The characters and roles of teachers and demographic characteristics and attendance of students have special places in classroom. Students are interested to participate in classroom logically and manner of faculty members’ teaching manner determine student's attendance in class. This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing the student's attendance in theoretical classes from the perspective of dental students of Babol Dentistry School.
This descriptive-analytical research was carried out as a cross-sectional study in 2015-2016 academic year. Sampling was performed by census method. Data collection tool was a questionnaire consisted of two parts of demographic data and 21 items in three fields of teacher, student and physical environment. To analyze the data, SPSS version 16 software was used and the significance level of 0.95 was considered.
FINDINGS: From the perspective of dental students, the teacher field was mentioned as the most effective factor and physical environment field had the least impact on the attendance of students in theoretical classes. The differences of mean scores of physical environment field in comparison with teacher and student fields (p-value Relationships between students and teachers and the interactions among them are associated with positive behavioral and attitudinal results for students. Educational authorities should create a high-quality learning environment, implement modern methods of teaching and dealing with students to teachers and encourage students to participate in classrooms.

Odontogenic cysts and tumors exclusively develop in the jaws from odontogenesis tissues. Given the importance of the early diagnosis and proper treatment, the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of these lesions in a population from the North of Iran during a 22-year survey. This cross-sectional study was conducted by investigating the records in the archives of Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Babol affiliated with the Department of Pathology of School of Dentistry from 1990 to 2012. The demographic features of the subjects including age, gender, anatomic pathology and clinical and pathological lesions were collected in the form of data which were recorded and evaluated. Out of a total of 8956 samples with oral lesion dysfunctions, 317 cases of odontogenic cysts and 53 cases of odontogenic tumors were discovered which belonged to 205 men (55.4%) and 165 women (44.6%). The mean age of these patients was 15.15 ± 28.75 years (ranging from 2 to 79 years). Among the cysts, radicular cyst accounted for the highest prevalence (67.8%) while ameloblastoma was the most frequent odontogenic tumor (82.6%). Moreover, the lesions most commonly developed in the maxillary anterior and the posterior mandibular region, respectively. According to the results of this study, the incidence of odontogenic tumors is lower compared to the incidence of odontogenic cysts in the north of Iran