Conhecimento de proteção radiológica de estudantes de odontologia em Teresina

Abstract

Most of the procedures performed using radiation for medical diagnosis have been used by dental professionals as complementary tests. Often, the professional performing the procedure does not use radiological protection measures for himself or for the patient. In order to regulate the basic standards in odontological radiodiagnosis, the Guidelines for Radiological Protection in Medical and Dental Radiodiagnosis was published in Portaria 453 on June 1st, 1998. Thus, it is important to evaluate the radiological protection behavior learned in the course of Dentistry and the level of awareness on the subject. Therefor this study aims to evaluate the knowledge of the Dentistry students of Teresina, in Piauí about norms of radioprotection. This is a descriptive, field-based study with a quantitative approach, with a questionnaire composed of questions about the necessary radiological protection in a dentist's office. The minimum sample size was estimated using the software Epi-info 7.0, in the STATCALC module, contains dentistry students from 3 educational institutions from Teresina and totals 149 participants. The results did not show a significant difference between the level of knowledge between the 5th and 9th BL and between the educational institutions. It is noteworthy that the Private 1 institution excelled in some issues. It is concluded that basic principles of radioprotection are little known by all. It is indicated greater emphasis on the part of the dentistry teachers in passing on information that should be applied during the practice of radiodiagnosis in dental offices.