Oral Health Attitudes and Behavior among a Group of Turkish Dental Students

Peker, İlkay; Alkurt, Meryem Toraman

doi:10.1055/s-0039-1697402

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“…This could be due to that fifth year students have had more training and experience in clinical practice as compared to the younger fourth year students. These findings are in agreement with previous studies 18,19 .…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 94%

Evaluation of Saudi Dental Students’ Awareness About Preventive Dentistry

Allam¹

2018

Egyptian Dental Journal

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Aim: Knowledge and oral health behavior of dental students play an important role in oral health education of patients and community at large. It is therefore important that their own oral health behavior conforms to expectations of the population. Hence, the aim of this study was to evaluate the awareness of future dental graduates towards preventive dentistry regarding gender and level of education. Materials and methods: The self-administered English-language structured questionnaire had two parts: The first part included gender and year of study. The second part included 9 questions to evaluate knowledge about preventive dentistry. The data were recorded and analyzed using the SPSS software. The level of statistical significance was set at P<0.05. Results: This cross-sectional study was performed on 207 dental students of King Saud University, dental college, Riyadh with a response rate of 80.5%. Majority of dental students were aware about the role of sugar in caries process. Generally, female students were more knowledgeable than male students in preventive dentistry. Fifth year students were more knowledgeable about the three fundamental issues of preventive dentistry, in comparison to fourth year students. Conclusions: Dental students of King Saud University Riyadh had a sufficient level of awareness about preventive dentistry but female students were not aware enough about the role of fluoride in the prevention of dental caries.

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confidence: 94%

Evaluation of Saudi Dental Students’ Awareness About Preventive Dentistry

Allam¹

2018

Egyptian Dental Journal

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“…respectively. [1213] This was significantly lower than that reported among Jordanian students (86%) as reported by Al Omari et al . Mani et al .…”

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confidence: 57%

Oral health knowledge, attitude, and practices among dental and medical students in Eastern India – a comparative study

Kumar¹,

Behura²,

Ramachandra³

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J Int Soc Prevent Communit Dent

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Objectives:To compare oral health knowledge, attitude, and practices among dental and medical students in a Health care centre at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.Materials and Methods:One hundred and fifty BDS and MBBS students each from Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences and Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences of KIIT University, Bhubaneswar respectively, were invited to participate in this survey using a self-administered structured questionnaire in English comprising 27 questions, which was designed to evaluate the oral health knowledge, attitude, and practices. The obtained data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20 software.Results:On comparison of the scores of knowledge, attitude, and practice, the mean knowledge score was significantly higher among dental students than medical students. The study also showed that female students (both dental and medical) had better oral health knowledge and showed better oral health practices than male students. Karl Pearson's correlation coefficient test showed that, although dental students had better knowledge and attitude towards oral health, there was a lack of adequate practice among them.Conclusion:Further emphasis on oral health is necessary in undergraduate training to improve oral health knowledge, attitude, and practice among dental and medical students as they will act as role models for oral health education among individuals and community at large.

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“…Furthermore, this might be due to the nature of actual social environment; women are generally more self‐conscious but also subject to more stress than males because of unequal societal and occupational treatment. These findings agree with the results of previous studies reporting significant relationships between gender and oral hygiene behaviours .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%