Evaluation the knowledge of dentists and dentistry students in Shiraz about dental considerations in patients using anticoagulants

Some dental procedures cause more bleeding in patients with bleeding disorders, who use anticoagulants. Therefore, it is necessary to become familiar with control bleeding disease in such patients. Considering the importance of this issue, the aim of this study was to determine the knowledge of dentists and dentistry students in this respect.
Ninety dentists and sixty dentistry students of Shiraz Dental School were randomly selected for the purpose of this cross-sectional descriptive/analytical study in 2014. The knowledge of these two groups of subjects was evaluated in different aspects by using a questionnaire. Data were analyzed with SPSS 20.
Eighty dentists and 55 dentistry students completed the questionnaires. The mean knowledge scores for these two groups of dentists and dentistry students were 5.3 ± 2.31 and 7.3 ± 3.2, respectively, of a total possible score of 15. The knowledge of half of the dentists was poor and the rest had moderate knowledge; 21.4% of dentistry students had poor, 64.36% had moderate and 14.3% had good knowledge. The knowledge of participants exhibited an inverse relation with their age.
Based on the results of this study, the knowledge of dentists and dentistry students was not favorable.