ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE OF INTERN DOCTORS REGARDING INDIVIDUAL ORAL HYGIENE

Abstract

Actuality. Reasonable recommendations of doctors who have scientific information on this topic should play a decisive role in patients' choice of means of rational oral hygiene, taking into account their individual characteristics. The goal is to assess the level of awareness of interns of various specialties regarding individual oral hygiene products. Materials and methods. With the help of the developed questionnaire, which contained 10 questions with suggested answer options, an anonymous online survey of 168 interns in the specialties 221 Dentistry and 222 Medicine was conducted, the answers were analyzed and the results were compared for interns in different specialties. The results. To most of the questions regarding individual oral hygiene, interns of both specialties provided answers that indicate a sufficiently high level of general knowledge and adherence to known recommendations, however, certain discrepancies were found in the answers to individual questions. According to the obtained results, a significant part of medical interns do not follow the recommendations regarding the frequency of tooth brushing, the duration of this procedure, and do not follow the professional recommendations of dentists in choosing personal hygiene products. At the same time, dental interns demonstrated significantly greater awareness of interdental hygiene products. Conclusions. The interns of the specialties of Dentistry and Medicine are sufficiently thoroughly informed about the means of individual oral hygiene and their use, while certain differences in the level of possession of this knowledge were revealed, however, the majority of representatives of both specialties demonstrated a desire to improve them.