Gowdar Inderjit Murugendrappa, BinKhames Yasser Mohammed, Althani Rakan Abdullah, Almuthaybiri Sultan Marshad, Alabdulmuhsin Sakinah Bakr, Alatiyyah Fatimah Mohammed
Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Prince Sattam Bin Abdul Aziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
College of Dentistry, Prince Sattam Bin Abdul Aziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2022 Jul;14(Suppl 1):S327-S330. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_804_21. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
Caries is a preventable dental disease; further, it is associated with many risk factors. If risk factors are identified and evaluated in time, prevention can be achieved.
Present study attempts to assess the knowledge of caries risk evaluation among dental students in Riyadh using a cross-sectional observational study design.
The study comprised 390 dental students, interns, from the Riyadh region, Saudi Arabia. Questionnaire was developed to assess knowledge about Caries Risk Assessment (CRA). Questionnaire included ten straight statements with options for acceptance or refusal by marking true or false.
About 10.3% of the participants accepted dental caries as transmissible disease. About 69.5% of the participants think White spot lesions as carious lesions. 66.9% predict radiographic approximal lesions are disease indicators.
Majority of the participants possessed knowledge about caries risk assessment, although prevention-oriented knowledge needs to be improved because knowledge of caries inducing aspects and risk of occurrence among clinicians help to deliver tailored preventive measures and appropriate execution of treatment.
龋齿是一种可预防的牙科疾病；此外，它与许多风险因素相关。如果能及时识别和评估风险因素，就能实现预防。
本研究试图采用横断面观察性研究设计，评估利雅得牙科专业学生对龋齿风险评估的了解情况。
该研究包括来自沙特阿拉伯利雅得地区的390名牙科专业实习生。设计了问卷来评估对龋齿风险评估（CRA）的了解。问卷包括十个直接陈述，有通过标记真或假来选择接受或拒绝的选项。
约10.3%的参与者认为龋齿是可传播的疾病。约69.5%的参与者将白斑病变视为龋损。66.9%的人预测X线片上的邻面病变是疾病指标。
大多数参与者具备龋齿风险评估的知识，尽管以预防为导向的知识有待提高，因为临床医生对致龋因素和发病风险的了解有助于提供量身定制的预防措施并正确实施治疗。
