KNOWLEDGE OF ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO DENTAL PHARMACEUTICALS AND MATERIALS AMONG PATIENTS, DENTISTS, AND DENTAL PERSONNEL - A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
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Allergy, Awareness, Dental Practice, Dental materials, Drugs
Abstract
Objective: This study aims at examining the effects of the drugs and dental materials used in dental practices on patients and the dental personnel and the allergies manifested by them which may in some cases be adverse.
Materials And Methods: A self -administered questionnaire was distributed among 200 participants of whom 100 were dental patients and 100 were dentists and dental personnel for data acquisition. The chi-square test was applied for the statistical analysis.
Results: Awareness of allergic reactions due to dental products was low among the patients with only 19% of study population reporting awareness. The chi-square test for patients represented revealed significant association for variables such as observation of other people experiencing reaction (p=0.011) and patients association of adverse reactions with dental materials (p=0.008) to awareness of allergies due to dental drugs. 81% of the dentists and dental staff were shown to be aware of allergic reactions due to dental products but were found to have low awareness of the management of these reactions.
Conclusion: Majority of the patients have either not experienced or observed these reactions or have not associated these reactions with dental products leading to under-reporting of cases.
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Dr. Faryal Sharifullah
Dental Surgeon, DHQ Hospital, Swabi, Pakistan
Dr. Nazish
Dental Surgeon, Bolan Medical Complex Hospital, Quetta, Pakistan/ FCPS (PGT) Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Armed Force Institute of Dentistry, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Dr. Sahar Jamil
Lecturer in Dental Materials at Frontier Medical & Dental College, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Dr. Zubair Nasir
Assistant Professor, Community and Preventive Dentistry, Shifa College of Dentistry, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Dr. Aamna Javed
Assistant Professor Oral Pathology, Abbottabad International Dental College, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Dr. Musarrat Rauf Burki
Assistant Professor Community and Preventive Dentistry, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, Pakistan