Department of Oral Pathology, Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara, Nepal.
Department of Oral Surgery, Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara , Nepal.
J Nepal Health Res Counc. 2020 Apr 20;18(1):70-74. doi: 10.33314/jnhrc.v18i1.1987.
Oral biopsy procedures are rarely practiced by dental surgeons around the world though they should be able to perform the biopsies for the diagnosis of oral lesions. Our objective was to access the knowledge, attitude and practice of oral biopsy procedures among the dental surgeons who are members of Nepal Dental Association.
A cross sectional study was conducted from December 2018 to March 2019, among the dental surgeons who were registered in Nepal Dental Association till September 2018. A standard pretested questionnaire was prepared using Google forms, was emailed to 374 dental surgeons. Two reminder emails were sent at an interval of 1 month. The non-responding dental surgeons who were reachable through mobile number (N=274) were contacted after the third 3rd email. Out of 274, 10 dental surgeons had completed postgraduation, so 264 of them were included in the study. A reminder call was made after one week. The data was entered in SPSS version 20 software and analyzed using descriptive statistics.
There were 160 responses to the emails after the conversation through mobile phone. The response rate was 60.6% with the predominance of female responders (66.9%). Though the majority of dental surgeons (96.2%) had encountered one or the other lesions requiring biopsy, only few of them (7.5%) had performed the biopsy which was mainly due to lack experience and skill (75.6%).
Most of the dental surgeon are not comfortable performing biopsy with majority seem to lack expereice and skill. There is need to organize training to Dental Surgeons to enhance their practical skills.
尽管口腔病理活检应该由口腔外科医生来操作，但是在全世界范围内，口腔活检操作在口腔外科医生中实施得很少。我们的目的是评估尼泊尔口腔协会会员中口腔外科医生对口腔活检程序的知识、态度和实践情况。
2018 年 12 月至 2019 年 3 月期间，对截至 2018 年 9 月已在尼泊尔口腔协会注册的口腔外科医生进行了一项横断面研究。使用 Google 表格制作了一份标准的预测试问卷，通过电子邮件发送给 374 名口腔外科医生。在一个月的间隔时间内发送了两次提醒电子邮件。在第三次电子邮件发出后，通过手机号码联系到了无法通过电子邮件联系到的 274 名未回复的口腔外科医生。在这 274 名口腔外科医生中，有 10 名完成了研究生学业，因此将其中 264 名纳入研究。一周后，我们进行了一次提醒电话。将数据输入 SPSS 版本 20 软件中，并使用描述性统计进行分析。
通过手机通话后，有 160 人回复了电子邮件。回复率为 60.6%，女性回复者居多（66.9%）。尽管大多数口腔外科医生（96.2%）遇到过需要活检的一种或另一种病变，但只有少数（7.5%）进行了活检，主要是因为缺乏经验和技能（75.6%）。
大多数口腔外科医生对进行活检感到不自在，大多数人似乎缺乏经验和技能。需要组织培训以提高口腔外科医生的实际技能。
