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Croatian primary and secondary school teachers’ knowledge and experience concerning dental trauma and its management

Introduction: Dental trauma is one of the important oral health problems in adolescent and childhood period. Children are high-risk group that spends large part of its active day in school. This cross-sectional study has assessed the level of knowledge and experience of Croatian primary and secondary school teachers concerning the management of dental trauma. Materials and methods: A questioner-based online study has assessed knowledge and experience with dental injuries among 803 primary and secondary school teachers. The data have been evaluated by the Student-T test or one-way ANOVA, with Tukey’s post-hoc. The level of significance was set at P ≤ 0.05. Results: Total mean value of teachers knowledge regarding emergency management of dental trauma was 6.59 ± 2.51 (min 0, max 14). There is now significant difference in knowledge among teachers from lower primary, upper primary and secondary education (6.88 ± 2.53, vs 6.48 ± 2.42 and 6.44 ±2.58, respectively ; P = 0.140). As expected, teachers who had personal experience and witnessed to dental trauma had better knowledge (7.19 ± 2.56 vs 6.39 ± 2.46, and 7.46 ± 2.12 vs 6.39 ±2.55 ; P ≤ 0.001). Conclusion: The knowledge on emergency management of dental trauma among primary and secondary school teachers in Croatia is insufficient. Since most of teacher expressed willingness for future education regarding this subject, educational campaigns are recommended.

dental trauma ; knowledge ; teachers

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