[Development of educational technology in dentistry in Brazil]

This article reviews the experiments with educational technology conducted in the School of Dentistry of the Federal University in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. An account is given of the production in the Audiovisual Center of teaching-learning materials for dentistry. A summary description is given of programmed instruction techniques for use with an electronic programmer, modules, and sequences of slides with accompanying tape recordings. Some comments are offered on the improvements made with this equipment and techniques in the institution itself and in other universities of Brazil.