Specialist, Ankara University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Ankara Üniversitesi Diş Hekimliği Fakültesi, Ağız Diş ve Çene Cerrahisi, Emniyet Mahallesi, İncitaş Sokak, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Türkiye.
Associate Professor, Ankara University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ankara Üniversitesi Diş Hekimliği Fakültesi, Ağız Diş ve Çene Cerrahisi, Emniyet Mahallesi, İncitaş Sokak, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Türkiye.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2021 Jun;79(6):1236.e1-1236.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2021.02.006. Epub 2021 Feb 11.
We investigated the confidence levels of undergraduate dental students who used dental anesthesia simulators and patient reports of undergraduate dental students' confidence levels in delivering anesthesia injections, in comparison with undergraduate dental students who did not use dental anesthesia simulators. We also investigated application success rates.
The study was carried out in the dental anesthesia simulator laboratory and in the faculty clinics of the Faculty of Dentistry of Ankara University. One-hundred volunteer undergraduate dental students who had completed the third year of the 5-year undergraduate education program and who had not performed local anesthesia on a patient participated in the study. Seventy and 30 undergraduate dental students did and did not receive training on dental anesthesia simulators, respectively, before performing procedures on patients. Using a questionnaire, undergraduate dental students conducted a self-assessment of preparedness and confidence, educators assessed the application success rates, and patients evaluated the undergraduate dental students' confidence levels.
Patients reported that the undergraduate dental students trained using the simulators were more confident. The self-reported confidence and success rates in providing anesthesia did not differ significantly as per the use of dental anesthesia simulators.
Although use of simulators did not enhance self-reported confidence, patients reported that undergraduate dental students who used the simulators were more confident and reassuring. Use of simulators did not increase the undergraduate dental students' self-reported confidence or preparedness. However, we recommend using such simulators to overcome the ethical and moral issues associated with other teaching methods.
我们调查了使用牙科麻醉模拟器的本科生牙科学生和报告本科生牙科学生在进行麻醉注射时的信心水平的患者的信心水平，与未使用牙科麻醉模拟器的本科生牙科学生进行比较。我们还调查了应用成功率。
该研究在安卡拉大学牙科学院的牙科麻醉模拟器实验室和教师诊所进行。100 名志愿本科生牙科学生完成了 5 年制本科教育计划的第 3 年，并且没有对患者进行局部麻醉，参加了该研究。在对患者进行治疗之前，70 名和 30 名本科生牙科学生分别接受了牙科麻醉模拟器的培训和未接受培训。本科生牙科学生使用问卷对自己的准备情况和信心进行了自我评估，教育者评估了应用成功率，患者评估了本科生牙科学生的信心水平。
患者报告说，经过模拟器培训的本科生牙科学生更有信心。根据使用牙科麻醉模拟器，自我报告的麻醉提供信心和成功率没有显着差异。
尽管使用模拟器并未提高自我报告的信心，但患者报告说使用模拟器的本科生牙科学生更有信心和令人放心。使用模拟器并没有增加本科生牙科学生的自我报告的信心或准备程度。但是，我们建议使用此类模拟器来克服与其他教学方法相关的伦理和道德问题。
