Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: July-September | Volume: 5 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 242-250
Evaluating Knowledge of North Indian Populace With Respect to the Use of Dental Implants: A Survey Based Research
Navneet Kour1, Nadia Irshad2, Kousain Sehar1, Adeel Ahmed Bajjad3, Manju Tagra2, Hilal Ahmad Hela4, Burhan Atlaf Misgar5
1MDS, Department Of Periodontology and Implantology BRS Dental College and Hospital. Sultanpur Panchkula.
2MDS, Dept of Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, BRS Dental College and Hospital Sultanpur Panchkula.
3MDS, Dept of Orthodontics, Kothiwal Dental College and Research Center Moradabad, Uttar Pardesh.
4MDS Student, Dept of Prosthodontic, Crown and Bridge and Implantology, GDC, Srinagar.
5MDS, Dept of Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry Guru Nanak Dev Dental College and Research Institute, Sunam.
Corresponding Author: Kousain Sehar
ABSTRACT
Dental implantology is quickly turning a claim into fame in the field of dentistry. Inside the most recent five decades, dentistry seems to have recorded its most noteworthy progression in the field of dental implantology. With dental implants, missing teeth are now able to be supplanted with steady, agreeable and regular looking substitutions. Inspite of this length of time related with the advancement, the mindfulness and practice of dental implantology wide utilization of dental implants has not just helped the dental calling to rearrange a large number of the troublesome treatment arranging forms yet additionally diminished the inconvenience that is so frequently hard to defeat with customary prostheses. Regardless, with its extended use, clinicians have progressively startling events.
Objective: the reason for this examination was to evaluate the degree of information and wellspring of data in regards to the utilization of dental implants as treatment choice contrasted with other ordinary treatment modalities.
Material and Methodology: A well-structured online multiple choice-based questionnaire was formulated. The sample size was chosen by simple randomized sampling as 2500 from the general population of North India. The results were tabulated, and descriptive statistics were presented for the scores of questionnaire with a significant value of <0.05. The χ2 test was used to determine whether there were differences in knowledge and information sources between the groups.
Results: Statistically significant differences were found between age, gender and socio-economic status of the population of north India with p<0.05.
Conclusion: There is as yet a requirement for preceded with training of the overall population in regards to dental implants in a developing nation like India.
Keywords: Awareness, Dental Implants, Knowledge, Mini-Implants, Missing Teeth.