Title
Parental knowledge, awareness and acceptance of silver diamine treatment among patients from Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India
Authors
Zohra Jabin, Iffat Nasim & V. Vishnu Priya
Affiliation
Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India; *Corresponding author
Zohra Jabin - E-mail: drzohrajabin@gmail.com; Phone: +91 9871933858,
Iffat Nasim - E-mail: iffatnasim@saveetha.com; Phone: +91 9940063567
V Vishnu Priya - E-mail: Vishnupriya@saveetha.com; Phone: +91 9841445599
Article Type
Research Article
Date
Received May 2, 2022; Revised June 30, 2022; Accepted June 30, 2022, Published June 30, 2022
Abstract
Silver diamine fluoride has emerged as a non invasive effective therapy for arresting active carious lesions. Therefore, it is of interest to assess parental knowledge, awareness and acceptance of SDF. A cross sectional questionnaire based survey was conducted among 62 parents visiting the Department of Pedodontics along with their children in Modinagar. A 15 item pre-validated questionnaire was used to record baseline characteristics of child’s parents and their knowledge, awareness and acceptance of SDF for their child for prevention of dental caries. 80.6% participants were aware that SDF is painless procedure whereas majority of the participants were not sure about whether placement of filling required post SDF treatment (48.4%), SDF treatment be done outside dental clinic (61.3%), and about any agents that reduce SDF staining (64.5%). Majority 71% participants were aware about SDF treatment's side effects, 90.3% aware whether their child experienced teeth blackening after SDF treatment and 83.9% aware about whether SDF treatment immediately relieves the child's pain. 90.3% preferred SDF treatment, 83.9% opted for SDF treatment despite of its tooth blackening effects. A statistically significant association was found between SDF acceptance and age of their child. There is a lack of knowledge about SDF among the study participants emerging a need for proper education to them when they visit a dental setting with their child. Although it causes discolouration of teeth post SDF treatment, still parents are willing to accept SDF as a treatment modality for their child’s oral health.
Keywords
Silver diamine fluoride, knowledge, awareness, acceptance, dental caries
Citation
Jabin et al. Bioinformation 18(6): 553-557 (2022)
Edited by
P Kangueane
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
