Primary School Teacher's Knowledge Regarding Emergency Management of Avulsed Permanent Incisors in Ahvaz, Iran

Traumatic dental injuries can have a significant impact on the life of a child, since it causes both physiological and physical pain.. The current study aimed to evaluate the primary school teachers’ knowledge about emergency management of avulsed teeth in Ahvaz, Iran..Patients and The study was conducted in twenty randomly selected primary schools of Ahvaz. The 269 teachers in the schools were selected and asked to fill out the self-report questionnaires for data collection. The questionnaire was inspired from one used by Mori et al. and consisted of the three parts: teacher’s demographic data, their knowledge about importance of emergency management, and emergency method that they used. The data were analyzed using chi-square test.. A total of 269 teachers, 41.6% male and 58.4% female, answered the questionnaire. The results showed that 15.2 % of the teachers had an experience of avulsed tooth at school, all of them knew the importance of emergency management and 36.4% would look for a dentist for treatment of the cases. Only 6.3% reimplanted the tooth themselves. Regarding the storage media, 6.7% would keep the avulsed tooth in milk. There was no significant difference between gender and education level (P > 0.05).. The results of the current study showed that school teachers’ lacked knowledge regarding dental trauma and especially tooth avulsion..