Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Infection Control among Dental Healthcare Personnel: The Updated Guidelines for COVID-19 in Dental Settings

Knowledge’s and Practices of Cross Infection Control Protocols among Dental Health Care Professionals in Public Sector University of Karachi, Pakistan

“…This important detail was not covered in the above-mentioned study. 16 While our results showed that 61.6% of the personnels checked for reports and secondly when they were asked for what diseases they were vaccinated, they reported that only 40% were vaccinated against hepatitis B which is low implying that adequateness of the knowledge and practices were as per the universal precautions for crossinfection control which may have can be the result of the covid 19 pandemic which increased the general awareness of PPE. 19,20 Other important factors specially vaccination status of the health care provider is necessary for the safety of the practitioner but also of the patients.…”

“…On comparing this to the available literature from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan we found that either they had included dental assistants or dental students in the sample leaving the other dental health care providers. 11,[15][16][17] Only one study from India covered everyone from dental health care team. 18 The questions from the mentioned were different from ours.…”

“…The mean knowledge score between the dental practitioners and the dental assistants in the Indian study was higher for dental assistants (Mean Score=5.79) in comparison to dentist (Mean Score=2.03). 16 This difference in knowledge and practices in our study was analyzed through Post-hoc (Schafft est). Mostly there was a significant difference specially between assistants/hygienist (certified/diploma holders) and postgraduates (faculty and postgraduate trainees) (Table 3) at p-value 0.05.…”