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A Multi-National Questionnaire-Based Analysis Of Dental Students’ Knowledge Of The Management Of Deep Caries And The Exposed Pulp, Venkateshbabu Nagendrababu, Arindam Dutta, Ana Arias, Aleksandar Jakovljevic, Ahmed Hieawy, Frank C. Setzer, Jugoslav Ilic, Milos Beloica, Meric Karapinar Kazandag, Nandini Suresh, Paul V. Abbott, Raghavendra M. Shetty, Srinivasan Narasimhan, Victoria Sh Yu, Vellore Kannan Gopinath, Ya Shen, Henry F. Duncan Jun 2025

A Multi-National Questionnaire-Based Analysis Of Dental Students’ Knowledge Of The Management Of Deep Caries And The Exposed Pulp, Venkateshbabu Nagendrababu, Arindam Dutta, Ana Arias, Aleksandar Jakovljevic, Ahmed Hieawy, Frank C. Setzer, Jugoslav Ilic, Milos Beloica, Meric Karapinar Kazandag, Nandini Suresh, Paul V. Abbott, Raghavendra M. Shetty, Srinivasan Narasimhan, Victoria Sh Yu, Vellore Kannan Gopinath, Ya Shen, Henry F. Duncan

School of Dentistry Faculty Publications

Introduction and aims: To evaluate knowledge regarding the management of deep carious lesions and exposed pulps among undergraduate and postgraduate endodontic students from ten dental institutions across ten countries, and the impact of operator (material, antibiotic prescription) and patient-related (age, symptoms) factors on their treatment protocols. Methods: An online questionnaire was distributed to evaluate student knowledge of the management of deep caries and exposed pulp related to four clinical scenarios. Simple descriptive statistics were used to describe the data and McNemar tests were employed to identify significant differences between the scenarios. The P-value was set at 5%. Results: A total …


Treatment Of Periodontitis Affecting Human Primary Teeth—A Systematic Review, Protyusha Guha Biswas, Anusha Mohan, Eswar Kandaswamy Jul 2023

Treatment Of Periodontitis Affecting Human Primary Teeth—A Systematic Review, Protyusha Guha Biswas, Anusha Mohan, Eswar Kandaswamy

School of Dentistry Faculty Publications

The aim of this systematic review is to report the treatment options (Intervention) and outcomes (O) for primary teeth affected by periodontitis (Population) and if the treatment of primary teeth can prevent the spread of periodontitis to permanent teeth (Outcomes). The following databases were searched for papers published before December 2022: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Ebscohost. Studies on children affected by periodontitis involving the primary teeth were included and those on children who presented with periodontitis as a manifestation of systemic disease were excluded. Narrative synthesis and methodological quality assessments were performed for the included studies. Three interventional …