Knowledge of stem cells among Dentistry undergraduates
RSBO (Impr.)
;
12(4): 368-376, Oct.-Dec. 2015. ilus
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: biblio-842392
ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Stem cells (SCs) enabled great advances in different health fields, including Dentistry.Objective:
To investigate the knowledge of last year Dentistry undergraduate students regarding SCs and its applications. Material andmethods:
A questionnaire with open-ended questions was applied to the students, followed by qualitative-quantitative analysis involving the clustering of the answers.Results:
The majority of students (70%) defined SCs adequately, only half of the interviewees (48.8%) were unable to classify SCs and just 26.2% classified it correctly. On the question about SCs from dental tissues, 77.5% reported it was possible and 70.9% knew which tissues could be used. The main source of knowledge was the media (36.4%), followed by the University (26.6%); 88.5% stated that the topic was only addressed in the first year of the course. Consequently, only 7.5% reported being capable of answering questions about it.Conclusion:
The students are not receiving enough information about the topic.
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LILACS (Americas)
Type of study:
Qualitative research
Language:
English
Journal:
RSBO (Impr.)
Journal subject:
Dentistry
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Federal University of Santa Catarina/BR
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