Abstract
Aims: The aims of the present study is evaluate the dentist knowledge
and believes toward denture adhesive through generation of discussion
among dentist (in ministry of health and ministry of higher education) in
Mosul city. Materials and Methods: In a dental meeting that held on
April 2009 in College of Dentistry ,university of Mosul ,a questionnaire
paper was given to 264 dentist which consist of two: part the first one
evaluate dentist knowledge about denture adhesive, the second one
evaluate the dentist attitude toward denture adhesive. Result: The
findings of the present study showed that (9.8%, 67.8% and 22.4%) of
dentists had respectively weak, moderate and good knowledge toward
denture adhesive while( 3.1%, 80.4% and 16.6%) had respectively
negative, moderate and positive attitude toward denture adhesive
materials. The _x0001_2 test showed non significant statistical relation between
dentist knowledge about denture adhesives and their previous years of
experience, place of work, sex and their degree of education. Statistical
analysis methods used to analyze and asses the result of this study were
SPSS version 13.0. Conclusions: The findings of the present study
showed that dentist knowledge and attitude toward denture adhesive
materials was moderate. Their information about denture adhesive
indications, contraindications, advantages and disadvantages were very
poor therefore prosthodontic specialist in College of Dentistry,
University of Mosul should insist on denture adhesive in student's
curriculum with increasing the credit hours.
