Awareness on Evidence Based Dentistry amongst dental professionals in Vadodara city – An Questionnaire survey
Evidence based dentistry and medicine is increasingly attracting worldwide attention in public policy, resulting in the mass production of evidence based clinical guidelines. It is one of the recent evolutionin the dental practice in India EBD aids in clinical decision making in all fields of medici...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer – Medknow Publications
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Integrated Health Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/2347-6486.238977 |
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| Summary: | Evidence based dentistry and medicine is increasingly attracting worldwide attention in public policy, resulting in the mass production of evidence based clinical guidelines. It is one of the recent evolutionin the dental practice in India EBD aids in clinical decision making in all fields of medicine, including primary care. With a lack of awareness of relevant research, and awareness about EBD, a substantial part of clinical practice in dentistry relies on practitioners personal experience, resulting in large variations in practice between healthcare workers. Thus the aim of this study was to assess the awareness of dentists of Vadodara city towards EBD and the need of training programs in Vadodara city for the same. This was an observational questionnaire survey on awareness of dentists towards EBD and the need of training programs for the same. The list of dentists practicing in Vadodara city was obtained from IDA Vadodara branch. 87 dentists were included in the study. A validated questionnaire was sent to these dentists across Vadodara city. The dentists were evaluated according to experience and qualification. Out of 80 participants there were 16 dentists who had heard about evidence based dentistry, had an experience of less than 10 years while 17 out of 28 dentists who were experienced more than 10 years had heard about the same. (p=0.16). Participants believed that EBD is beneficial for current era of dentistry and there is need of training programs for the same. The knowledge of EBD is less amongst the practitioners in the city of Vadodara and there is need of training programs for evidence based dentistry. |
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| ISSN: | 2347-6486 2347-6494 |