The internship dentists self confidence levels during root canal treatment procedures

  • Authors

    • Mazen Doumani damascus university.alfarabi college for dentistry and nursing,Riyadh,saudi arabia
    • Adnan Habib alfarabi college for dentistry and nursing,Riyadh,saudi arabia
    • Abrar Alhababi alfarabi college for dentistry and nursing,Riyadh,saudi arabia
    • Ahmad Bashnakli alfarabi college for dentistry and nursing
    • Enass Shamsy faculty of dentistry ,Aleppo,Syria
    • Mohammad Zakaria Nassani alfarabi college for dentistry and nursing,Riyadh,saudi arabia
    2017-07-15
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijdr.v5i2.7948
  • Root Canal Treatment, Endodontics, Self-Confidence, Internship Students.

  • Abstract

    Self-confidence level assessment in newly graduated students is very important to evaluate the undergraduate endodontic courses.
    Objective: The aim of this study was to get information from internship dentists in Alfarabi dental college related to their confidence levels during root canal treatment procedures.
    Methods: Anonymous survey forms were sent to 150 internship dentists in Alfarbi dental college. They were asked to indicate their self-confidence level by Lickert’s scoring system ranging between 1 and 5.
    Results: Removal of broken instruments was determined as a procedure that was not experienced by 25.2% of the dentists. (44.6%) of dentists felt confident about taking radiographs during root canal treatment. 1.9 % of them reported as having very little confidence during retreatment. The irrigation was a procedure in which they felt very confident about (59.2%).
    Conclusion: The non-practiced endodontic procedure was clearly related to levels of self confidence among internship dentists; this means; a lot of studies in dental school should be performed to determine the weakness points or gaps in undergraduate endodontic courses.

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    Doumani, M., Habib, A., Alhababi, A., Bashnakli, A., Shamsy, E., & Nassani, M. Z. (2017). The internship dentists self confidence levels during root canal treatment procedures. International Journal of Dental Research, 5(2), 121-124. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijdr.v5i2.7948

    Received date: 2017-06-07

    Accepted date: 2017-07-07

    Published date: 2017-07-15