Patients' knowledge and awareness of dental implants in a Turkish subpopulation

Abstract

PURPOSEThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the patients' knowledge on dental implants in a Turkish subpopulation.MATERIALS AND METHODSFive hundred twenty seven Turkish adults referred to Yeditepe University Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul, Turkey, were presented with a questionnaire including 20 questions regarding the level of information and awareness about the dental implants. The data were collected and statistical analyses were performed with Chi square test to compare the descriptive data.RESULTSAmong 527 subjects, 54% were female and 46% were male with a mean age of 42.2 years. The rate of patients' implant awareness was 27.7%. When the patients were questioned about the treatment options for rehabilitation of tooth missing, 60.9% of patients were informed about fixed partial denture, followed by conventional complete denture (32.5%) and removable partial denture (24.9%). Six percent reported that they were very well informed about the dental implants whereas 48.2% were poorly informed. The information sources of the implants were from the dentist (44.5%), printed media (31.6%) and friends and acquaintances (17.3%), respectively. Sixteen percent of the population believed that their implants would last forever.CONCLUSIONThe dentists should give more detailed information to the patients about dental implants and tooth-supported fixed partial dentures in the future.

Knowledge and Awareness About Dental Implants for Treatment of Missing Teeth in Patients of Bahadurgarh, Haryana

“…In the present study, 315 (66.73%) patients knew about FPD as replacement of missing teeth which is in contrast to studies conducted by Kumar et al, (13) Narayanan et al (14) and Tomruck et al (12) 205 (43.43%) patients had a knowledge about complete denture, which is similar to studies conducted by Tomruck et al (12) and Satpathy et al (10) 195 (41.31%) knew about all options of replacing missing teeth in present study, while only 29.5% knew about same options in study conducted by Kumar et al (13) 70 (14.83%) of subjects did not know any option, which is similar to study by Kohli et al (11%). (11) …”

“…Out of 295 subjects who knew about implants, 120 (40.67%) got to know about implants from dentist which is similar to studies conducted by Satpathy et al, (10) Kumar et al (13) and Tomruck et al (12) 97 (32.88%) told friends and family as a source of information conducted by Santosh et al (15) and Khosyal et al (16) showed influence of friends and family as 10% and 6.1% respectively. TV, Newspaper advertisement as a source of information about implants was answered by 65(22.03%) subjects, which is in contrast to studies by Santosh et al (15) (5%) and Khosyal et al (16) (8.8%), while study by Kumar et al (13) has similar result as in the present study.…”

“…When asked about the different ways to replace the missing teeth, 207 (43.8%) knew about Removable Partial Denture (RPD), which is in congruence with the study conducted by Satpathy et al (10) (48.55%), while in studies conducted by Kohli et al, (11) Tomruck et al, (12) Kumar et al (13) and Narayanan et al (14) only 55%, 34.9%, 24.7% and 20.78% of the subjects respectively knew about RPD as treatment option for missing teeth. In the present study, 315 (66.73%) patients knew about FPD as replacement of missing teeth which is in contrast to studies conducted by Kumar et al, (13) Narayanan et al (14) and Tomruck et al (12) 205 (43.43%) patients had a knowledge about complete denture, which is similar to studies conducted by Tomruck et al (12) and Satpathy et al (10) 195 (41.31%) knew about all options of replacing missing teeth in present study, while only 29.5% knew about same options in study conducted by Kumar et al (13) 70 (14.83%) of subjects did not know any option, which is similar to study by Kohli et al (11%).…”

Public and Patient Knowledge About Dental Implants

“…This finding has been reported in other studies. [2][3][4] These sources of information could be the reason fewer group I respondents correctly answered 2 of the 3 knowledge questions on the questionnaire, and this means that treating doctors will have to spend more time on correctly educating such persons should they become implant patients.…”

Diş Hekimliği Fakültesi’ne başvuran hastaların dental implant farkındalıklarının değerlendirilmesi

“…Bu çalışmalarda hastaların farkındalık düzeyi %27,7 ile %77 arasında bulunmuştur. 1,2,[5][6][7]10,11 Çalışmamızda %66.7 olarak tespit edildi. Çalışmalarda dental implant farkındalığını farklı değerler alması katılımcıların farklı sosyal kültürel çevrelerden olmasından veya eğitim durumlarının farklı olmasından ya da çalışma yapılan popülasyonun sayılarındaki farklılıktan kaynaklanmış olabilir.…”