AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY TO ASSESS RUBBER DAM USAGE AS A COMMON METHOD BY DENTISTS, HOUSE JOB DENTISTS & DENTAL MEDICAL SCHOLARS
| Main Author: | Dr. Tooba Riaz, Dr. Saira Batool, Dr. Maliha Tahir |
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| Format: | Article |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/1476067 |
Daftar Isi:
- Objective: To calculate the rate of rubber dam usage amongst medical scholars, internees and dental doctors and fences they face to use Rubber Dam in their daily practice. Methods: An observational short-term research was led from March to August 2017 by means of non-probability suitability selection at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore. A questionnaire was accurately planned founded on questions used in identical researches in past. The bull's eye populations of our research were medical dental scholars, internees and Doctors doing their duties at various institutes. Statistics from the finalized questionnaire was examined by means of SPSS. Results: With the strong reply of 82%, our research suggested that most (77%) of medical scholars, internees and house job dentists, they remain to overlook rubber dam assignment in their daily exercises. Overall 90% of dentists did not practice it as they think it as very time consuming and 67% of these dentists declared that Rubber Dam is quite hard to place. Few other motives due to which half of the participants don’t like to use a rubber dam, they are regular ripping of sheet and sufferer’s anxiety or detesting thinking towards the assignment of rubber dam. Conclusion: Our research recommends that using of rubber dam is a disliked technique for separation of functioning site amongst medical scholars, internees and Dentists. Keywords: Rubber dam, dentists, foreign bodies.