Evaluation of martial art masters,s knowledge about tooth avulsion and associated factors

Avulsion is one of the complicated case of dental trauma that contains 16% of dental trauma in the children at the aged 7-11 years old. In the case of lack of ontime treatment, patient will face mantel problems. One of common causes of dental trauma is sport activities and physical education teachers are the first people facing children at the moment of incidents and have the opportunity to put back the Avulsed tooth in the socket. They should be aware of dental traumas and their treatment. Regard to the lack of knowledge in these teachers about tooth Avulsion, we decided to survive the man masters of martial arts in Tehran.

This was a descriptive analytic research. we divided Tehran into four parts. This survey is done in 18 stadium located in region 3,6,7,15. 112 masteres answered to our questionnaires. All trainers were asked individual question through interview. The questionnaire included 16 questions. There were 7 questions about personal information in the first section which had no points. There were 9 questions about knowledge of dental trauma emergencies in the second section. The effect of each effecting factor in the questionnaire we used the linear regression method and spa version 11.5 software.

Among 112 people, 26 people (22.4%) had good knowledge, 59 (52.6%) average knowledge and 27 (25%) weak knowledge. There is a significance relation between knowledge and working experience (P. value=0.001) and educational level (P. value= 0.001)

Most of the masters had weak knowledge about replanting the Avulsed tooth and suitable media for keeping it. conclusion shows that to promote the knowledge of the martial art masters, training courses in the field of dental trauma emergencies and first aid is necessary.