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Knowledge Regarding Management of Tooth Avulsion Among Dental-Students in Karachi
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the awareness and level of educational knowledge related to emergency management of dental trauma among dental students in Karachi, Pakistan.
Methods: This study consists of a cross-sectional survey involving undergraduate dental students of three different local dental colleges in Karachi, Pakistan. A total of 208 pre-tested questionnaires was used, comprising students’ demographic data, previous training in traumatic dental injury, and knowledge assessment regarding tooth avulsion and its emergency management.
Results: The result shows that there was a significant association between educational level and knowledge of the students regarding training in dental trauma and exposure to a dental emergency, with an overall 96.2% response rate. First-year students have significantly less training and exposure to tooth avulsed trauma accidents when compared to final-year students. Even though final-year students were far better in answering correctly still significantly higher number of students answered incorrectly to scenario-based questions when compared to first-year students.
Conclusions: These study results show that the education regarding first aid training for dental traumas occurring outside the vicinity of dental clinics and hospitals in Karachi are inadequate, emphasising towards the implementation of guidelines for dental injury and its management using a variety of learning methods like problem-based education and powering the curriculum regarding the dental trauma.
Methods: This study consists of a cross-sectional survey involving undergraduate dental students of three different local dental colleges in Karachi, Pakistan. A total of 208 pre-tested questionnaires was used, comprising students’ demographic data, previous training in traumatic dental injury, and knowledge assessment regarding tooth avulsion and its emergency management.
Results: The result shows that there was a significant association between educational level and knowledge of the students regarding training in dental trauma and exposure to a dental emergency, with an overall 96.2% response rate. First-year students have significantly less training and exposure to tooth avulsed trauma accidents when compared to final-year students. Even though final-year students were far better in answering correctly still significantly higher number of students answered incorrectly to scenario-based questions when compared to first-year students.
Conclusions: These study results show that the education regarding first aid training for dental traumas occurring outside the vicinity of dental clinics and hospitals in Karachi are inadequate, emphasising towards the implementation of guidelines for dental injury and its management using a variety of learning methods like problem-based education and powering the curriculum regarding the dental trauma.