Abstract In recent years, oral implant treatment has become widespread, and so undergraduate students need to reliably acquire knowledge and skills. Matsumoto Dental University has been conducting implant placement training since 2017 in addition to oral implantology lectures. In the present study, we verified the effect of the training from a questionnaire survey of 82 fourth-year students in 2020.

 The questionnaire consisted of six-level evaluation of six questions, “interest,” “understanding of implantology,” “difficulty,” “safety of implantation,” “future hopes,” and “understanding of the training,” as well as free-form questions. In this training, freehand implantation was performed in the lower right 5 and 7 equivalents of the jaw model under visible conditions. The results showed that “understanding of implantology” and “understanding of the training” increased significantly after the training, indicating that the training deepened understanding. In addition, “difficulty of implantation” decreased significantly and “safety” increased significantly, suggesting that the number of students who thought that implants were “not difficult” and “safe” increased through practical training. On the other hand, “interest” and “future hopes” maintained high scores, suggesting the potential interest and future hopes of students for oral implants. In addition, the free description included many positive opinions about the content.

 Our students are highly interested in implants and have high hopes for the future, and this training appears to be effective in deepening their understanding. On the other hand, since this training is a part of clinical practice further enhancement of the training content assuming clinical practice is considered to be necessary in future.

 Abstract Helping to quit smoking patients is an important duty of dentists to maintain the general and oral health of patients. Some undergraduate dental students about tobacco, and do not realize that they will help their patients to quit smoking as dentists in the future. The purpose of this study was to help undergraduate dental students acquire general knowledge of tobacco, the health hazards of smoking and the role of dentists in providing support for quitting smoking through e-learning contents, and to examine the learning effects and changes in their awareness.

 A total of 653 undergraduate dental students who agreed with the purpose of the research participated in this study. Before e-learning about tobacco, they completed a pre-questionnaire about their general knowledge of tobacco and the harmful effects of smoking on general and oral health. The self-learning time using the e-learning contents was about 15 minutes. Then we evaluated the learning effects and changes in students’ awareness of smoking based on their responses to the post-questionnaire.

 It was found that short-term e-learning about tobacco increased the students knowledge of tobacco and motivated them to provide smoking cessation support. In addition, the learning content encouraged them to quit smoking themselves. It is necessary to improve tobacco education further according to students’ age, grade and smoking habits, and to provide a new program for our students to practice smoking cessation support.

 Abstract Osaka Dental University Faculty of Health Sciences has accepted many international exchange students proactively since 2017. Thirty exchange students have entered and enrolled in our faculty. Twenty-eight students were from China and two were from South Korea. In our faculty, the student support division was started in April 2018 with six members, and has comprehensively provided health control, psychological support, student life support and learning support. Regarding supporting international exchange students, the international exchange division has played the main role with our assistance and the administrative department. In our infirmary, doctors and nurses conducted health control such as health checks and vaccinations. Regarding psychological support, the student consultation division provided consultations under a certified psychologist. Regarding learning support, teaching staff played the main role, especially for learning Japanese, which is difficult for foreigners. The staff also explained the contents of lectures. Exchange students, our staff and Japanese students met and exchanged opinions. At the meetings, relationships, learning Japanese and financial difficulties were pointed out. Moreover, the career support division and our committee helped with finding jobs and going to senior school after graduation. Our committee members engaged in multi-disciplinary collaboration closely and effectively.