Assessment of knowledge on traumatized immature permanent teeth among dentists in China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Medical practice is always based upon the cognition and knowledge base of physicians, and the same applies to dentistry. Being attained through education and perception, knowledge is essential to clinical practice. Cross-sectional studies have recognized a uniform trend in which the treatment of traumatic dental injuries (TDIs) is of suboptimal quality in China: is a lack of knowledge a problem, or do some relevant factors of dentists have a significant effect on obtaining TDI treatment knowledge? The purpose was to measure dentists' knowledge of TDI treatment and investigate whether some relevant factors have indeed affected their knowledge of TDI treatment.

Method

An online-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 1027 dentists in Guangxi Province via a cl

SUBMITTER: Qin Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11954240 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature