Volume 25, Issue 116, October 2021

Assessing the knowledge on the management of dental avulsion among parents in Riyadh (2020)

Asma Al Shahrani^1,2,3, Adel Alajlan¹, Abdulmalik Aldayhani¹, Salah Alshehri¹, Mohammed Almutairi¹, Omar Alshamrani¹, Meshal Alshehri¹, Abdullarhman Obaidi¹, Khalid Alajlan¹

¹College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
²King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
³Preventive Dental Science Department, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the parents’ awareness and attitude toward managing dental avulsion in Riyadh city. Materials and Methods: An electronic questionnaire survey form was designed. It contains three parts; the first part consists of demographic data, the second aims to assess the level of knowledge regarding dental avulsion, and the third part consists of simulated case scenarios that have been sent to parents using social media (WhatsApp, Twitter, and Snapchat) randomly in Riyadh city. One thousand nine hundred forty-nine questionnaires were collected and analyzed using the JMP program. Results: Majority of the participants are females. Most of the participants are aware of the difference in the type of knocked-out teeth, whether it is primary or permanent. 58% of participants knows how to manage a knocked-out tooth correctly. More than 50 per cent of the participants appreciate that it is urgent to seek a dentist immediately. Conclusion: This study shows that most parents who have participated have an intermediate level of knowledge in dental trauma. According to the results of this study, having previous knowledge in dental trauma management and the source of that information plays a significant role in improving parental knowledge. The level of knowledge of the parents affects the prognosis of avulsed teeth. Management of the knocked-out teeth immediately will affect the prognosis positively.

Keywords: Dental trauma, Dental avulsion, Awareness, Parents’ knowledge

Medical Science, 2021, 25(116), 2565-2573

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