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This study was carried out in the dental school of Ahram Canadian University in Egypt to investigate the knowledge and compliance of senior students and interns toward infection control practices. A self‑administered questionnaire was employed with questions pertinent to the participants’ knowledge of risks in the dental settings, the practice of hand hygiene, the use of protective equipment, and the management of sharp injuries, among others. Although the knowledge and practice of the 240 surveyed participants were good; they were not up to the coveted standards. Despite being an integral part of their curriculum, an alarming percentage (19.6%) of the participants denied receiving knowledge about infection control instructions. Meanwhile, only 72.5% were aware of being at risk in the dental settings, and 78.3% confirmed their practice of hand hygiene. On the other hand, 84.6% of the surveyed participants confirmed the availability of protective equipment and 94.2% of them expressed their willingness to apply infection control measures in the future. The defects in the knowledge and practice mandate corrective actions to promote and upgrade the students’ compliance. Meanwhile, other gaps can be rectified via developing state-of-the-art communicative strategies. Efforts are warranted to enhance the attitude and motivate the students to conform to the protective safety measures. With all the infection control procedures already established in dental schools, the challenge lies in improving the students’ compliance with these recommendations.

Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and it was ranked 111 among the ranks of 188 countries in the human world report of 2016 so it was necessary to adopt effective programs for human development especially that direct to health, because health has become a standard of well-being in developed countries. Among the population targets in Egypt is raising the health properties of citizens and provide a good health program able to protect them from the risk of diseases. One of these efforts is the establishment of the general Authority for social health insurance as a health experiments. Its health services cover more than 59% of the total population in 2017 which means that it included more than half of the population. It becomes the most important health establishment in the country which protects people from the risk of diseases. One of the advantages of this experiments, it's not completely free and it's not completely high cost.