The evaluation of opinions and attitudes of dentists towards the use of rubber dam during operative and endodontic procedures

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the opinions and attitudes of dentists toward the use of rubber dam during various restorative procedures in their dental practices. A structured questionnaire was designed, and distributed to 300 dentists and those that were fully completed were collected for analysis. The collected informations about the opinions and attitudes of dentists toward the use of rubber dam were statistically analyzed in terms of percentages and frequencies using a computer software SPSS version10. Out of 200 hundred respondents 178 ( 89%) do amalgam restorations and out of those 50% never used rubber dam and 13% always used the rubber dam. 96.5% do direct anterior composite restorations, out of those 63.7% never used the rubber dam whereas 18% always used the rubber dam. 94.5% do direct posterior composite restorations, out of those 65.6% never used the rubber dam and 11.6 % always used the rubber dam. 76% do the endodontic treatment, out of those 36% never used the rubber dam and 26.9% always used the rubber dam.