A STUDY ON AWARENESS ABOUT MANAGEMENT OF TOOTH AVULSION AMONG GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONERS

Introduction: Majority of dental injuries occur from 8 to 11 years is due to the falling accidental. Twenty-five per cent of all school children experience dental trauma, and 33% of adult have experience trauma to the permanent dentition. Aims and objectives: The main objective of the study is to analyze the awareness about management of tooth avulsion among general dental practitioners. Material and methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in THQ Hospital, Fortabbas during March 2018 to November 2018. This study was done with the permission of ethical committee of hospital. The data was collected from 100 participants. All dentists were invited to participate in this study. Data was collected through a self-administrated questionnaire. The variables in the questionnaire comprised of socio-demographic information (gender, age and nationality), professional characteristics (years of experience, level of specialization and working place and overseas fellowship), and information regarding the awareness about the management of avulsed tooth. Results: The data was collected from 100 participants. All participants were well aware of the management of an avulsed tooth. Total of 100 dental practitioners had answered the questionnaires, 39% were females, and 61% were males. The mean age of the study participants was between 25–60 years, the general dentists 75% and specialists 25%. There was a significant difference between the genders regarding the critical, required time for avulsed tooth replantation (44.3%) were aware of the critical time while many of female (71.8%) were not knowing about the time for avulsed tooth replantation. Conclusion: It is concluded that a significant result was observed regarding the best storage medium, a critical time for avulsed tooth replantation and tooth management before replantation