Santos Marconi Eduardo Sousa Maciel, Habecost Ana Paula Zambarda, Gomes Fernando Vacilotto, Weber João Batista Blessmann, de Oliveira Marília Gerhardt
Graduate Program in Dental Science, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology, School of Dental Science, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Dent Traumatol. 2009 Apr;25(2):203-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-9657.2008.00620.x.
Traumatic dentoalveolar injuries are frequent in children and adolescents, affecting teeth, their supporting structures and adjacent soft tissues and contributing to the appearance of major psychosocial and economic problems. Tooth avulsion, the most severe dentoalveolar lesion, is a dental emergency. The prognosis of avulsed teeth significantly depends on prompt and efficient action at the site of the accident, thus requiring that parents or caretakers be knowledgeable about the correct management of this situation. The objective of the present study was to assess the level of knowledge of parents or caretakers concerning the management of tooth avulsion and to investigate the association between level of knowledge and schooling, monthly family income and age. We interviewed 107 parents or caretakers using a 12-item questionnaire comprising objective questions whose answers received a score from 0 to 3. The results show that 99% of those interviewed would immediately seek professional help; however, 71% did not know what avulsion was. Only 3% would use milk as storage medium and 16% would attempt replantation of the avulsed tooth. The distribution of final means for the overall level of parent or caretaker knowledge was 44.63% for score 3, 15.88% for score 2, 17.99% for score 1 and 21.47% for score 0, showing a low level of knowledge concerning tooth avulsion. Schooling, monthly family income and age were not associated with the knowledge scores for any of the 12 questions. The level of parent and caretaker knowledge concerning the management of tooth avulsion is low, without association with age, schooling and monthly family income.
创伤性牙牙槽损伤在儿童和青少年中很常见，会影响牙齿、其支持结构和相邻软组织，并导致重大的心理社会和经济问题。牙齿完全脱位是最严重的牙牙槽病变，是一种牙科急症。脱位牙齿的预后很大程度上取决于在事故现场迅速而有效的行动，因此要求父母或照顾者了解这种情况的正确处理方法。本研究的目的是评估父母或照顾者对牙齿完全脱位处理的知识水平，并调查知识水平与受教育程度、家庭月收入和年龄之间的关联。我们使用一份包含12个客观问题的问卷对107名父母或照顾者进行了访谈，这些问题的答案得分从0到3。结果显示，99%的受访者会立即寻求专业帮助；然而，71%的人不知道什么是完全脱位。只有3%的人会使用牛奶作为储存介质，16%的人会尝试将脱位的牙齿再植。父母或照顾者总体知识水平的最终平均得分分布为：3分占44.63%，2分占15.88%，1分占17.99%，0分占21.47%，表明对牙齿完全脱位的知识水平较低。受教育程度、家庭月收入和年龄与12个问题中的任何一个的知识得分均无关联。父母和照顾者对牙齿完全脱位处理的知识水平较低，与年龄、受教育程度和家庭月收入无关。
