Nagpal Disha, Prakash Shobha, Kalra Dheeraj D, Singh Gagandeep
Department of Periodontics, College of Dental Sciences, Davangere, Karnataka, India.
Department of Public Health Dentistry, YMT Dental College and Hospital, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Indian J Dent Res. 2018 Sep-Oct;29(5):575-582. doi: 10.4103/ijdr.IJDR_500_15.
Implant therapy has become an important part of treatment to restore function and esthetics in partially/completely edentulous patients. Inspite of the progress made in implant dentistry since its inception, there have been some loopholes in scientific based knowledge and established clinical experience amongst dental professionals and postgraduates.So,an analysis was performed of the real picture.
A study was conducted to assess and compare the knowledge, attitude and practice of dental implants among dental postgraduate students and dental practitioners (General and institutional)in Davangere City, Karnataka and to identify the variations in their knowledge, attitude and practice with respect to dentist's factors (years of experience, implant training and their specialization).
A cross sectional questionnaire based survey was conducted using census approach with informed consent. A pretested, self administered questionnaire containing demographic details and knowledge ,attitude and practice based questions was distributed and collected back from the respondents. Responses were coded before and decoded after the analysis. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS SoftwareV17.0.
The results were determined after the statistically analyzed and concluded that the knowledge was widespread among postgraduates and dental practitioners and variations existed amongst the subjects with respect to age, gender, years of experience, practice type, implant training and their specialization. It was also found that the attitude and practice towards implants and their evidence based knowledge about the same was variable.
种植治疗已成为部分或完全无牙患者恢复功能和美观治疗的重要组成部分。尽管种植牙科学自创立以来取得了进展，但牙科专业人员和研究生在基于科学的知识和既定临床经验方面仍存在一些漏洞。因此，对实际情况进行了分析。
开展一项研究，以评估和比较卡纳塔克邦达万盖尔市牙科研究生和牙科从业者（普通和机构从业者）对牙种植体的知识、态度和实践，并确定他们在知识、态度和实践方面因牙医因素（经验年限、种植培训及其专业）而产生的差异。
采用普查方法并获得知情同意后，进行了一项基于横断面问卷的调查。分发并回收了一份预先测试的、自我填写的问卷，其中包含人口统计学细节以及基于知识、态度和实践的问题。在分析之前对回答进行编码，分析之后进行解码。使用SPSS软件V17.0进行统计分析。
经统计分析后得出结果，结论是研究生和牙科从业者对牙种植体的知识较为普遍，且在年龄、性别、经验年限、执业类型、种植培训及其专业方面，受试者之间存在差异。还发现，对种植体的态度和实践以及他们基于证据的相关知识存在差异。
