Knowledge of elementary school teachers in Tel-Aviv, Israel, regarding emergency care of dental injuries

Abstract

The knowledge regarding management of traumatic dental injuries in a group of teachers in the Tel-Aviv area is inadequate. Educational programs as well as addition to the curriculum are necessary to improve their emergency management of traumatic dental injuries and provide better protection to the students.

Traumatic dental injury in permanent teeth: knowledge and management in a group of Brazilian school teachers

“…There are several papers related to school teachers' lack of knowledge about traumatic dental injuries. In our study, the knowledge of schoolteachers regarding traumatic dental injuries and emergency management was unsatisfying, as previously reported in other studies . However, some points in this theme should be investigated.…”

“…In the literature, the majority of the articles about this theme showed inadequate knowledge and incorrect management of traumatic dental injuries . Unfortunately, they did not either present any validation of their questionnaire or convenience samples.…”

First Aid Management in Emergency Care of Dental Injuries – Knowledge Among Teachers in Rijeka, Croatia

“…Since the prognosis of traumatized teeth depends highly on immediate and appropriate management of the teeth, teachers who witness such a trauma are expected to provide prompt and proper sequence of actions in order to minimize or possibly exclude certain functional, esthetic, psychological and economic side eff ects for the patient 9,10 . In the past years, many studies have shown the teachers' knowledge regarding management of dental injuries to be quite poor and inadequate [11][12][13][14][15][16] . No data are available to access elementary school teachers' knowledge about managing den-tal injuries in Croatia.…”

Knowledge about emergency dental trauma management among school teachers in Colombia: A baseline study to develop an education strategy

“…et al38 and Fux-Noy et al39 showing that older people with more work experience tend to act more by intuition than by knowledge.When comparing the responses of the three clusters in regard to knowledge of the primary management of avulsion, significant differences were found. Regarding the question about placing the tooth in its original position, only 3.1% of cluster 1 responded affirmatively.…”