Sengupta Shamindra, Sharma Vandana, Gupta Vineeta, Vij Hitesh, Vij Ruchieka, Prabhat Kanika
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, D. J. College of Dental Sciences and Research, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
J Forensic Dent Sci. 2014 Jan;6(1):58-61. doi: 10.4103/0975-1475.127774.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the awareness of practicing dentists about the subject of forensic odontology and to assess their willingness to maintain and share patient records.
A blind questionnaire survey was carried out among 100 randomly selected practicing dentists in district Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Most of the dentists interviewed were familiar with the subject of forensic odontology and its relation to dentistry, despite forensic dentistry having been newly introduced since 2007 into the undergraduate dental curriculum in India. However, dental records are maintained by only a few dentists, and only a very small percentage of them reported to have shared records, which may have helped in the identification of victims in a mass disaster.
The result of our survey concluded that more awareness needs to be developed among practicing dentists regarding maintaining and sharing patient records for forensic odontology to succeed as a victim identification tool.
本研究旨在评估执业牙医对法医牙科学主题的认知，并评估他们保存和分享患者记录的意愿。
在北方邦加济阿巴德地区随机抽取100名执业牙医进行无记名问卷调查。
尽管自2007年起法医牙科学才新纳入印度本科牙科课程，但大多数接受采访的牙医都熟悉法医牙科学主题及其与牙科的关系。然而，只有少数牙医保存牙科记录，且只有极少数人报告曾分享过记录，而这些记录可能有助于在大规模灾难中识别受害者。
我们的调查结果表明，为使法医牙科学作为一种受害者识别工具取得成功，需要提高执业牙医对保存和分享患者记录的认识。
