Alshammari Abdullah Faraj, Alenzi Rana Homoud, Alanezi Ashwaq Abdullah, Enizy Abdulmjeed Sadoon, Aldakhil Ahmed Mohmmed, Alkurdi Khlood Abdulkader
Department of Basic Dental and Medical Science, College of Dentistry, University of Hail, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Int J Clin Pediatr Dent. 2021 Sep-Oct;14(5):662-665. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10005-2009.
Dental caries is managed by two approaches: prevention which focuses on inhibiting the caries progression, and the traditional approach which is treating caries by drilling and filling. Logically, the first approach is more effective. One of the recently marketed preventive methods for preventing and inhibiting the progression of dental caries is silver diamine fluoride (SDF), which is proven to be minimally invasive and cost-effective, SDF has proven to have a significant success rate in caries prevention, especially in the early childhood caries.
The study aims to evaluate general practitioners' SDF clinical experience, knowledge, professional behavior, and attitudes.
The study was a cross-sectional study and we utilized a random sampling of Saudi general dental practitioners from different places in the Hail region, KSA. The study was conducted using papered interview and an online questionnaire followed by educating the dentists about SDF.
Dentists were asked about SDF, 62.7% answered that they heard about SDF topical application, but the dentists who answered all questions correctly are only 14.89% with no statistically significant difference among gender, age, or sector.
This study had several limitations. It only included the dental GPA in the Hail region, Saudi Arabia. As is the case with all surveys, only a limited number of questions could be asked. Thus, the information to be obtained is also limited. Future research should therefore include other questions to clarify other aspects which we could not explore in this research.
Alshammari AF, Alenzi RH, Alanezi AA, Knowledge and Attitude of Dentists toward Silver Diamine Fluoride in Saudi Arabia. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2021;14(5):662-665.
龋齿的治疗有两种方法：一种是侧重于抑制龋齿进展的预防方法，另一种是通过钻孔和填充来治疗龋齿的传统方法。从逻辑上讲，第一种方法更有效。氟化银胺（SDF）是最近上市的预防和抑制龋齿进展的预防方法之一，已被证明具有微创性且成本效益高，SDF在预防龋齿方面已被证明有很高的成功率，尤其是在幼儿龋齿方面。
本研究旨在评估全科医生对SDF的临床经验、知识、专业行为和态度。
本研究为横断面研究，我们从沙特阿拉伯海勒地区不同地点的全科牙科医生中进行随机抽样。研究通过纸质访谈和在线问卷进行，随后对牙医进行关于SDF的教育。
当被问及SDF时，62.7%的牙医回答他们听说过SDF局部应用，但所有问题回答正确的牙医仅占14.89%，在性别、年龄或科室之间无统计学显著差异。
本研究有几个局限性。它仅包括沙特阿拉伯海勒地区的牙科全科医生。与所有调查一样，只能提出有限数量的问题。因此，可获得的信息也有限。因此，未来的研究应包括其他问题，以阐明我们在本研究中无法探讨的其他方面。
Alshammari AF, Alenzi RH, Alanezi AA, 沙特阿拉伯牙医对氟化银胺的知识和态度。《国际临床儿科牙科学杂志》2021年；14(5):662 - 665。
