Correlation between handwriting, drawing skills and dental skills of junior dental students.

@article{AlJohany2011CorrelationBH,
  title={Correlation between handwriting, drawing skills and dental skills of junior dental students.},
  author={Sulieman S. Al‐Johany and Maan M Alshaafi and Mohammed S. Bin-Shuwaish and Faleh Ali Alshahrani and Abdulfatah Alazmah and Sami D. Aldhuwayhi and Nassr Almaflehi},
  journal={The journal of contemporary dental practice},
  year={2011},
  volume={12 5},
  pages={
          327-32
        }
}
UNLABELLED Learning fine motor skills is a pre-requisite for succeeding in dental practice and it is sometimes challenging for dental students. Most of the methods used in the selection process depend on evaluation of intellectual ability or structured interview while manual competence is not. However, no test on aptitude or manual dexterity is used as criteria. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study intended to evaluate the fine motor skills of beginning dental students which could in… 
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