Dental students knowledge of Dental autotransplantation

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Regina Mendes da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Rocha, Julierme Ferreira, Medeiros, Luanna Abílio Diniz Melquíades de, Maia, Laís Sousa, Goes, Vitor Nascimento, Oliveira, Ocimar Lopes de, Fragoso, Lukas Natã Mendes, Moura, Ana Beatriz Rodrigues, Penha, Elizandra Silva da, Guênes, Gymenna Maria Tenório, Almeida, Manuella Santos Carneiro, Figueiredo, Camila Helena Machado da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/4632
• topic: Dentistry; Mouth rehabilitation; Autoulogous transplantation.; Odontología; Rehabilitación bucal; Trasplante autólogo.; Odontologia; Reabilitação bucal; Transplante autólogo.

Objective: To identify the level of knowledge of students of the Dentistry Course at the Federal University of Campina Grande, campus of Patos, regarding dental autotransplantation as a treatment for oral rehabilitation. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, observational study, with an inductive, descriptive approach, adopting a specific questionnaire as a strategy for data collection, applied to 143 graduates regularly enrolled from the 5th to the 10th period of the dentistry course, between the year 2019 and 2020. Aspects covered: characterization of students and information related to dental autotransplantation (concept, indications, contraindications and factors that influence the success of treatment). Results: Most of the interviewees were female. There was a satisfactory level of knowledge about the indications, contraindications, advantages and the need for no loading of the self-transplanted tooth. Conclusion: Despite not being a common procedure in clinical practice and dental education, within the methodology used in this study, it was possible to observe a satisfactory level of knowledge among dentistry students at UFCG, Patos-Paraíba about dental autotransplantation.