Dental Interns and Students Self-Confidence toward Oral Surgery Clinical Procedures

Alhalawanya, Sherin; Alshalanb, Thakib

doi:10.21608/omx.2021.86330.1126

Dental Interns and Students Self-Confidence toward Oral Surgery Clinical Procedures

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Ministry of Health

² College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

10.21608/omx.2021.86330.1126

Abstract

Background: Dental colleges in the world have different missions and the dental curriculum varies between dental colleges.
Oral surgery is an important clinical specialty in the dental curriculum. As the curriculums vary, the oral surgery teaching and
clinical trainings also vary. Due to these variations, it is important to highlight the findings of previous studies that investigated
the teaching and education of oral surgery.
Aim: The aim of the study is to summarize the perception of dental interns and students toward oral surgery learning outcomes.
Materials and Methods: In this brief review, a summary of the review of selective previous publications is presented. Medline
and Google were used as the search engine for the previously published articles.
Results: The previous studies showed variations in the confidence level of dental undergraduate students toward different
oral surgical procedures. Dental interns and students have higher level of self-confidence in performing simple extraction
procedures. Other clinical procedures such as surgical extraction, biopsy, and flaps were not perceived well by interns and
students.
Conclusion: This review showed that dental students and interns have basic knowledge and clinical oral surgery procedures. It
is recommended that dental colleges make every possible effort to update the oral surgery didactic and clinical components of
the oral surgery courses for undergraduate students

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