Open AccessTingkat Pengetahuan Erosi Gigi pada Mahasiswa Profesi di Rumah Sakit Gigi dan Mulut Jakarta
Author(s) -
Alisa Novianty Pratiwi,
Okky Marita Ardy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
majalah sainstekes/majalah saintekes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2085-6237
pISSN - 2685-6794
DOI - 10.33476/ms.v7i1.1426
Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry , cross sectional study , statistical analysis , family medicine , mathematics , pathology , statistics
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess knowledge related to tooth erosion among dental students in dental hospital, Jakarta. Data were collected by means of a self-applied questionnaires that were distributed among 90 participants from three dental hospitals in Jakarta. The response rate was 100 percent. Chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests were used for statistical analysis (p0.05). The majority of the participants had heard about erosion (95.6 percent). 33.3 percent of the students almost had not seen a patient with erosion, and 37.8 percent reported they saw a patient with erosion in a month at their dental hospital. 90 percent of the students were knowledgeable and well-prepared to diagnose the condition.