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Sahithya, Ramadasu Uma, Lakshmi, Ponamadi Naga, Devaki, Talluri, Koyi, Srivalli, Pavani, Nijampatnam P. M. |
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JIDA: Journal of Indian Dental Association; Jul2019, Vol. 13 Issue 7, p28-32, 5p |
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Brief Background India, a developing country faces many challenges in rendering health needs to its countrymen. Indian population consists of people from varied cultural and religious backgrounds. In Indian view point, a dental myth regularly emerges from conventional belief of non exploratory base. People believe in spiritual treatment and alternative forms of medicine, they prefer visiting a hakim (local traditional practitioner) to a doctor. Materials and Methods The study was conducted with approval from institutional ethical committee of SIBAR Institute of dental sciences, Andhra Pradesh. A self administered questionnaire based survey was conducted among out-patient division of the institution. Results In the present study 87.7% of the participants said that tooth problems should be taken seriously and cannot be neglected.42.3% agreed to the myth that ''no visible dental problem means no need to visit the dentist''. Discussion A positive finding of the present study, i.e., 18.3 percent believed that placing a medicament beside a painful tooth can relieve pain is significantly less than 30.8 percent of Raina SA et al. Summary and Conclusions The results of the current study showed that myths still hover in the minds of the common people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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