Abstract
The aim was to find out the preferences of dentists in Iraq regarding strategies of carious tissue removalin management of deep carious lesions (CR) in asymptomatic teeth and how demographics (sex, years ofexperience, qualification, specialty, place of work) influences these preferences. An online questionnaireof two months duration was constructed and distributed randomly via social media (Facebook). Thequestionnaire’ questions investigated the demographics, CR (included non-selective removal to hard dentine(NS), stepwise (SW) and selective (SE) removal). 238 dentists participated in the study, 164 (69%), 56(23.5%) and 18 (7.5%) of respondents prefer NS, SW and SEremoval, respectively. Significantly both GDPand males prefer NS more than Endodontists and females (P<0.05), Percent of respondents work in privateclinics who perform non-selective removal (53.6%) significantly lower than those who work in hospitals(73.6%) (p<0.01). less invasive CR significantly associated with being an endodontist or female or work ina private clinic (OR=2.02, CI 95% 1.02-4.0), (OR=2.04, CI 95% 1.12-3.7) and (OR=2.1, CI 95% 1.0-4.0),respectively. In conclusion Iraqi GDPs prefer invasive strategy of carious tissue removal in management ofdeep carious lesions. Specialty, place of work and sex of respondents affected these choices significantly
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