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June, 2010, Vol. 12, No. 2

CONTENTS

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

Flapless surgery and immediately loaded implants: A retrospective comparison between implantation with and without computer-assisted planned surgical stent
Matteo Danza, Francesco Carinci
35-41

Technical aspects of endodontic treatment procedures among Lithuanian general dental practitioners
Vytaute Peciuliene, Jurate Rimkuviene, Jolanta Aleksejuniene, Markus Haapasalo, Saulius Drukteinis, Rasmute Maneliene
42-50

Electromyographic and cephalometric correlation with the predominant masticatory movement
Maria Julia P. Coelho-Ferraz, Fausto Berzin, Cesar Ferreira Amorim, Fabio Lourenco Romano, Dagmar de Paula Queluz
51-55

The impact of salivary mutans streptococci and sugar consumption on caries experience in 6-year olds and 12-year olds in Riga
Jekaterina Gudkina, Anda Brinkmane
56-59

REVIEW

Changes in oral health-related quality of life among children following dental treatment under general anaesthesia. A systematic review
Birute Jankauskiene, Julija Narbutaite
60-64

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Technical aspects of endodontic treatment procedures among Lithuanian general dental practitioners

Vytaute Peciuliene, Jurate Rimkuviene, Jolanta Aleksejuniene, Markus Haapasalo, Saulius Drukteinis, Rasmute Maneliene

Summary

Objective. The purpose of this study was to gather information about the various aspects, technical and biological, of endodontic treatment as performed by Lithuanian general dental practitioners and to compare their choices with established endodontic treatment standards of undergraduate education.

Materials and Methods. Questionnaires were sent to all 2850 Lithuanian dental practitioners. The structured questionnaire included inquiries about gender, duration of professional activity, working environment, details about instruments and materials.

Results. From total 1532 (53.8%) questionnaires were returned. Only responses from general dental practitioners (1431) were included. Of the respondents 66% never used a rubber dam. Most practitioners relied on conventional stainless steel instruments. The NiTi hand files were often and routinely used by 32.2% of the respondents. Sodium hypochlorite was the most popular choice as a root canal irrigant. Calcium hydroxide paste was used as an inter-appointment medicament. Cold-lateral condensation root filling method was used by 72.8% of the respondents while 15.6% used a paste for the root filling.

Conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the recently graduated dental practitioners were following the recommended standard of endodontic treatment better than those with a longer time from the graduation. It is important to improve the quality of existing courses of continuous education in endodontology in order to ensure the necessary competency in clinical practice. The low use of a rubber dam and low adoption of new technologies in Lithuania is not acceptable and needs to be changed.

Key words: questionnaire survey, general dental practitioner, root canal treatment.

Received: 16 01 2010

Accepted for publishing: 21 06 2010


1Institute of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius university, Lithuania
2Department of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
3Division of Endodontics, Department of Oral Biological & Medical Sciences University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry

Vytaute Peciuliene1 – D.D.S, PhD, assoc. prof.
Jurate Rimkuviene1 – D.D.S, PhD, assist. prof.
Jolanta Aleksejuniene2 – D.D.S., M.Sc., PhD
Markus Haapasalo3 – D.D.S., PhD., prof.,
Saulius Drukteinis1 – D.D.S, PhD, lecturer
Rasmute Maneliene1 – D.D.S., PhD, assoc.prof.

Address correspondence to: Dr. Vytaute Peciuliene Institute of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius university, Lithuania, Zalgirio 117, Vilnius, Lithuania.
E-mail address: vytaute.peciuliene@mf.vu.lt; vytautep@delfi.lt