Knowledge, Perception, and Attitude on Conservative and Endodontic Practice on COVID Pandemic Situation: A Qualitative Research

Abstract

Aim: The purpose of our study was to analyze the knowledge and attitude of conservative as well as endodontic practice among dental professionals during coronavirus pandemic situation. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted over a period of 3 months among 1256 dental surgeons, which included 400 MDS and 856 BDS dentists. Questionnaire assessed knowledge of the participants about COVID-19, risk assessment about the pandemic, preparedness of the participants, as well as specific precautions in cases which require conservative and endodontic treatment strategies against COVID-19. Results: It was observed that around 83% of the study participants felt that rubber dams are a useful tool to prevent cross-infections, even COVID-19. However, COVID-19 prevention techniques such as use of low-speed handpiece and chemicomechanical techniques were preferred by a smaller number of participants: 25% of participants by former, only 12% for the latter. To prevent aerosol splatter, use of high-volume suction was preferred by 49% of dental surgeons. Conclusion: In our study, we concluded that dental surgeons, who come under high risk category; had good basic knowledge about COVID-19 disease process as well as transmission. However, it is imperative that these clinicians need to be extra cautious in handling cases during this pandemic time and limit the disease spread as well.

Assessing the Compliance of Dental Clinicians towards Regulatory Infection Control Guidelines Using a Newly Developed Survey Tool: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study in India

“…The current study demonstrated the process of developing a new instrument to evaluate the adherence of dental practitioners to the guidelines provided by the DCI. Previous studies analyzed the knowledge, preparedness, and attitude of dental clinicians towards the COVID-19 pandemic; however, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, a survey tool to measure the uptake of the recommended guidelines (instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic) by dental clinicians is currently lacking [ 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 ].…”

Persepsi Dokter Gigi terhadap Pelayanan Teledentistry dalam Menjaga Keberlangsungan Pelayanan di Masa Pandemi COVID-19: Scoping Review

“…(Menhadji et al, 2021) Temuan ini sejalan dengan studi oleh Khatore et al yang menunjukkan hanya 12% subjek yang percaya bahwa konsultasi jarak jauh dapat menjadi alternatif kunjungan konvensional untuk prosedur elektif di bidang konservasi dan endodontik. (Khatore et al, 2021)…”

“…Pengumpulan data dalam 14 studi hanya menggunakan kuesioner, sedangkan 1 studi menggunakan kuesioner dan wawancara. Sebanyak 4 studi berasal dari Arab Saudi (Aboalshamat, 2020;Al Mohaya et al, 2021;Almulhim et al, 2021;Nassani et al, 2021), 2 studi dari Pakistan (Abbas et al, 2020;Subhan et al, 2021), 2 studi dari India (George et al, 2021;Khatore et al, 2021), serta masing-masing 1 studi berasal dari Amerika (Tiwari et al, 2022), Kolombia(Plaza-Ruíz et al, 2021), Brazil(Raucci-Neto et al, 2022, Indonesia (Soegyanto et al, 2022), Inggris (Menhadji et al, 2021), dan Italia. (Sinjari et al, 2020) Terdapat 1 studi yang mengumpulkan responden dari berbagai negara di Asia, Eropa dan Amerika.…”

“…(Abbas et al, 2020;Aboalshamat, 2020;Al Mohaya et al, 2021;George et al, 2021;Maqsood et al, 2021;Menhadji et al, 2021;Nassani et al, 2021;Plaza-Ruíz et al, 2021;Raucci-Neto et al, 2022;Soegyanto et al, 2022;Subhan et al, 2021;Tiwari et al, 2022) Sedangkan 3 studi lainnya bertujuan untuk mengetahui persepsi subjek secara umum terhadap praktik kedokteran gigi selama pandemi COVID-19. (Almulhim et al, 2021;Khatore et al, 2021;Sinjari et al, 2020) Rangkuman karakteristik studi secara lengkap dapat dilihat pada Tabel 3.…”