Abstract

MANGUEIRA, Luênia Lisboa et al. Assessment of the level of knowledge of Physical Education students on the tooth avulsion. Rev. Bras. Odontol. [online]. 2014, vol.71, n.2, pp. 183-187. ISSN 1984-3747.

This research aimed assess the level of knowledge of students of physical education from a university the Patos-PB city about tooth avulsion. For this has been developed and implemented a structured and standardized questionnaire about dental trauma with 81 students of that course, whereby 39% answered correctly what would be the tooth avulsion; 91% never received information about patient care victim of such trauma and 35% said that the election procedure in such cases would be the restoration of the tooth. Based on the results it is concluded that PE students require a more comprehensive understanding of the subject since the trauma and thus the tooth avulsion is common practice to occur in sports activities.

Keywords : dental avulsion; Physical education and training; tooth injuries..