PENGETAHUAN MAHASISWA PREKLINIK FAKULTAS KEDOKTERAN GIGI UNIVERSITAS HASANUDDIN TERHADAP GAMBARAN RADIOGRAFI LESI RONGGA MULUT

2017Preclinical Students??? Knowledge of Dentistry Faculty in Universitas Hasanuddin \ud About Radiographic Pictures of Oral Cavity Lesions \ud \ud Audwin Rheza Nugroho \ud \ud ABSTRACT \ud \ud Nowdays radiology has a major role in the destistry???s world by helping dentists in \ud establishing a diagnosis, determining a treatment plan, and evaluating a treatment \ud result. Students??? knowledge as prospective dentist are required not only related to \ud anatomy (normal), but also things related to pathology (abnormal) in oral cavity. \ud Preclinical students of dentistry should be familiar in recognizing oral lesions, such as \ud periodontitis, abscesses, cysts, tumors, and other forms of lessions in order to \ud properly identify and interpret the radiographic pictures. Therefore, prospective \ud dentists need to have good knowledge of the radiographic of oral cavity lesions. The \ud purpose of this study is to know the preclinical students???s knowledge of Dentistry \ud Faculty in Universitas Hasanuddin about radiographic pictures of oral cavity lesions. \ud The number of samples used is 96 respondents who are the third grade preclinical \ud students of Dentistry Faculty in Universitas Hasanuddin. The data were obtained \ud from the respondents who had filled out the questionnaires. The results obtained are \ud that an average of preclinical students answered correctly on the questionnaire for \ud each type of oral cavity lesion through radiographic pictures, such as periodontitis, \ud abscess, cyst, tumor, and other lesions, were 41%, 37%, 41%, 35%, and 29% \ud respectively, whereas overall those lesions were answered with an average of 37% \ud correct. Preclinical students??? knowledge about radiographic pictures of oral cavity \ud lesions are categorized as enough for 60% preclinical students and the remaining 40% \ud categorized as deficient. Overall preclinical students??? knowledge of Dentistry Faculty \ud in Universitas Hasanuddin about radiographic pictures of oral cavity lesions is \ud categorized as enough. The preclinical students??? knowledge of Dentistry Faculty in \ud Universitas Hasanuddin should be still improved. \ud \ud Keywords: knowledge, radiology, oral cavity lesion