Volume 24, Issue 105, September - October, 2020

Knowledge, attitude, and perception of dental undergraduate students in different dental schools in Riyadh towards diagnosis and management of dental trauma – A cross sectional study

Asma Al-tamimi, Fatemah Al-rwais^1♦, Reem Al-meaither, Reem Al-hefdhi, Sarah Al-zahrani

College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Fatemah S. Alrwais, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Phone: +966535550338; Email: FatemahAlrwais@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge and the attitude of dental students toward management of dental trauma cases and to assess the effect of dental education on that, in several dental colleges in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on 364 participants. Results: The response rate was 80.8%. The association between the attendance of the educational programs and the responses of knowledge questions shows statistically significant association for the treatment of tooth intrusion and extrusion. No statistically significant association was found between the respondents attending educational programs and the responses of the management questions which was assessed with two clinical scenarios. Moreover, no statistically significant association was observed between participants’ gender, academic year, university and responses of knowledge and management questions. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that the overall knowledge on the management of traumatic injuries was moderate with inadequacy in some specific aspects of dental traumatology among dental students and interns in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Keywords: Attitude, knowledge, dental trauma, Saudi Arabia

Medical Science, 2020, 24(105), 3561-3571

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