Avaliação do nível de segurança dos alunos de universidade pública e privada para realização de procedimentos endodônticos.

Abstract

Endodontcs is the dental specialty that deals with the etology, diagnosis, and treatment of pulpo- periapical alteratons of the teeth. This specialty is one of the disciplines considered most difcult by

the students. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of self-confdence of students from a public and private college to perform endodontc procedures. This is a research of observatonal, quanttatve, analytcal and cross-sectonal character, with random and representatve sample of the populaton, performed from a questonnaire with students from the seventh, eighth and tenth periods of the Federal University of Campina Grande (Patos-PB) and sixth, seventh and ninth period of the UNIFIP (Patos-PB). The study had a sample of 115 regularly enrolled students. According to the data collected, in general, 44.3% of the students considered themselves "neutral" regarding the degree of confdence to perform endodontc treatment. When separately evaluatng public and private college students, most public college students felt neutral (49.2%), while most private college students felt confdent (42.6%). Most students felt "confdent" for all stages of treatment of uniradicular teeth. In premolars, most felt confdent in the steps of guta-percha cone try-in (40%), odontometry radiograph (38.3%), cone try-in radiograph (37.4%). Regarding molars, most felt "not very confdent" in the steps of chemical mechanical preparaton (36.5%), inserton of intracanal medicaton (27.8%), obturaton (38.3%). Therefore, it is concluded that students feel neutral about confdence for endodontc treatments, but they feel more confdent for treatment of uni-rooted teeth, which are trained more frequently during the undergraduate course. Measures should be taken in an atempt to increase this level of confdence on the part of the students, so that they can work endodontcally with more tranquility and safety in all dental groups.