Awareness, Attitude response of Parents to ward Emergency Management of Avulsed Permanent Tooth of Their Children in Egypt

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study is the evaluation of awareness level and attitude responsefor a sample representing Egyptian parents towards emergency management of permanent toothavulsion for children via questionnaire methods.Materials and methods: A 400 parents who had a children aged between 6 to 12 years attendedat the Pediatric Dentistry clinic, Faculty of Dentistry, Modern Sciences and Arts University, Cairo,Egypt. The questionnaires were distributed among this sample to evaluate the knowledge level andattitude response among those parents toward emergency management of avulsed permanent tooth.Results: The result in this study did reveal that 17.5% of the parents had previous informationabout the emergency management of the avulsed permanent tooth, and 42.8% believed in thepossibility of replantation of the avulsed permanent tooth, 19.2% of them could replant the toothby themselves. 38% of parents reported the necessity of immediate replantation, 37.4% did select asaline as suitable cleaning and 45% reported saline as the suitable transport media.Conclusion: Egyptian parents do lack the most knowledge needed for proper management ofavulsed permanent tooth, that is common in all levels regardless the difference in gender, educationlevel and geographic background.