Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang
Root Canal Treatment (RCT) is a treatment to save a tooth so that it can retain and function but most people are not aware about it. A total of 200 respondents attended Kulliyyah of Dentistry, IIUM (age: 16-60 years old) completed self-administered questionnaire. 57% of the respondents have high lev...
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| author | Mat Daud, Muhamad Sharifuddin Ruslan, Suhaili Isa, Siti Syahirah Abllah, Zurainie |
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| description | Root Canal Treatment (RCT) is a treatment to save a tooth so that it can retain and function but most people are not aware about it. A total of 200 respondents attended Kulliyyah of Dentistry, IIUM (age: 16-60 years old) completed self-administered questionnaire. 57% of the respondents have high level of awareness of RCT. Female gender, people with good oral hygiene practice and people that had past experienced of tooth symptoms had higher awareness on RCT. Despite the findings, more strategies needed to be implemented to increase the knowledge on RCT as it is the main barrier for getting RCT. |
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| spelling | iium-747992019-10-15T03:21:40Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/74799/ Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang Mat Daud, Muhamad Sharifuddin Ruslan, Suhaili Isa, Siti Syahirah Abllah, Zurainie RK318 Oral and Dental Medicine. Pathology. Diseases-Therapeutics-General Works Root Canal Treatment (RCT) is a treatment to save a tooth so that it can retain and function but most people are not aware about it. A total of 200 respondents attended Kulliyyah of Dentistry, IIUM (age: 16-60 years old) completed self-administered questionnaire. 57% of the respondents have high level of awareness of RCT. Female gender, people with good oral hygiene practice and people that had past experienced of tooth symptoms had higher awareness on RCT. Despite the findings, more strategies needed to be implemented to increase the knowledge on RCT as it is the main barrier for getting RCT. Elsevier 2019-08 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/74799/7/74799%20Awareness%20on%20root%20canal%20treatment.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/74799/8/74799%20Awareness%20on%20root%20canal%20treatment%20SCOPUS.pdf Mat Daud, Muhamad Sharifuddin and Ruslan, Suhaili and Isa, Siti Syahirah and Abllah, Zurainie (2019) Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang. In: Conference on BioMedical and Advanced Materials (Bio-CAM 2017), 28th-29th November 2017, Pulau Langkawi, Kedah. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785319314695 10.1016/j.matpr.2019.06.120 |
| spellingShingle | RK318 Oral and Dental Medicine. Pathology. Diseases-Therapeutics-General Works Mat Daud, Muhamad Sharifuddin Ruslan, Suhaili Isa, Siti Syahirah Abllah, Zurainie Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang |
| title | Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang |
| title_full | Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang |
| title_fullStr | Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang |
| title_full_unstemmed | Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang |
| title_short | Awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in Kuantan, Pahang |
| title_sort | awareness on root canal treatment among patients attending dental clinic in kuantan, pahang |
| topic | RK318 Oral and Dental Medicine. Pathology. Diseases-Therapeutics-General Works |
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