Primary School Teachers’ Knowledge Regarding Emergency Management of Avulsed Permanent Incisors in Ahvaz, Iran

Background: Traumatic dental injuries can have a significant impact on the life of a child, since it causes both physiological and physical pain. Objectives: The current study aimed to evaluate the primary school teachers’ knowledge about emergency management of avulsed teeth in Ahvaz, Iran. Patients and Methods: The study was conducted in twenty randomly selected primary schools of Ahvaz. The ۲۶۹ teachers in the schools were selected and asked to fill out the self-report questionnaires for data collection. The questionnaire was inspired from one used by Mori et al. and consisted of the three parts: teacher’s demographic data, their knowledge about importance of emergency management, and emergency method that they used. The data were analyzed using chi-square test. Results: A total of ۲۶۹ teachers, ۴۱.۶% male and ۵۸.۴% female, answered the questionnaire. The results showed that ۱۵.۲ % of the teachers had an experience of avulsed tooth at school, all of them knew the importance of emergency management and ۳۶.۴% would look for a dentist for treatment of the cases. Only ۶.۳% reimplanted the tooth themselves. Regarding the storage media, ۶.۷% would keep the avulsed tooth in milk. There was no significant difference between gender and education level (P > ۰.۰۵). Conclusions: The results of the current study showed that school teachers’ lacked knowledge regarding dental trauma and especially tooth avulsion