Knowledge, Awareness and Practice Survey On Bulk Filled Composites For Class 1 And 2 Among Dental Students
Keywords:
Awareness, eco friendly, Bulk filled composites, class 1 and 2 restoration, dental students, composite resins, innovative technologyAbstract
Introduction: Bulk-fill composites have been developed as a result of recent advancements to mitigate the shortcomings of the incremental process. Bulk-fill composites can be put in layers up to 4 mm thick, and in some cases, thicker, in a single application, which speeds up restorative treatments. Some bulk-fill composites are designed to be used as posterior restorative materials, whereas others are designed to be used merely as a base material to be coated with a typical resin composite. According to the manufacturers, these materials have a reduced polymerization shrinkage and a higher cure depth.
Materials And Methods: A self administered questionnaire was prepared and distributed online among 100 undergraduate and postgraduate dental college students in chennai. The results were obtained and statistically analysed using SPSS chi square test and represented graphically. (p<0.05).
Results: 88.89% of the participants were aware about bulk filled cavity preparation whereas 11.11% of them were unaware. 81.82% of the participants agreed that bulk filled cavity restoration is done mostly in the posterior tooth whereas 18.18% of the participants disagreed with it. The level of significance was found to be p value 0.001 (p value < 0.05) which was statistically significant.
Conclusion: From our study we can conclude that the Post graduate dental students have more knowledge and awareness about bulk filled composites in class 1 and class 2 restoration.
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