CONTEMPORARY DENTAL CARIES MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS IN PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY:
A SURVEY OF AWARENESS AND PRACTICE OF A GROUP OF GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL DENTISTS
Figure 1. The Questionnaire: original format.
Figure 2. The management choices for treatment of tooth DO caries 74 set (see radiograph inset). SSC: Stainless
Steel Crown; GIC: Glass Ionomer Cement.
n=76), East Asia (15.3%, n=23), Western Europe
(11.3%, n=17), Eastern Europe (20.6%, n=31) and
the United States of America (USA) (2%, n=3). The
results of the survey showed the following (Fig. 1
and Table 1).
3.1. Results for the first question (RCM), which
asked about management options for caries in
tooth #74 (class II ≤ caries shown in a radiograph) in
a cooperative six year old child (Fig. 2), the majority
chose caries removal and restoration (n=114, 76%)
compared to the HT (n=36, 24%, Fig 2). Within the
group that chose to remove caries and restore,
the choices were; composite (n=50, 33.3%),
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Glass Ionomer Cement (GIC) (n=26, 17.4%),
conventional SSC (n=26, 17.4%), amalgam (n=11,
7.4%) and finally zirconia crowns (n=1, 0.7%).
While GDPs and PDs followed the same pattern
(i.e., favour caries removal and restore rather than
seal), cross tabulating the RCM choices in the above
scenario and the specialty revealed statistically
significant differences between their individual
restorative choices (p=0.007) (Fig. 3). Most PDs
(n=20, 64.5%) chose SSCs (either conventional
SSC or HT SSC) compared to GDPs (n=42, 35.3%).
GDPs first choice was to use composite (n=42, 35.3
%), while PDs first choice was conventional SSCs
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