QUESTIONNARE STUDY ON PERCEPTION OF SINGLE VISIT AND MULTIPLE VISIT AMONG GENERAL DENTIST OR ENDODONTIST

Introduction: One of the main debates that have occurred in Endodontics is about the amount of sessions required to complete an appropriate treatment.There are very different philosophies regarding this matter.Objective:Aim of this study was to investigate the endodontist or general dentist point of view regarding single and multiple visit root canal treatment, identifying the basis on which the choice is made and how the information necessary for the choice is acquired.Material and methods:Endodontists or general dentist registered in the dental practice were contacted,and if they agreed to participate, they were interviewed using a questionnaire. The following topics were addressed: demographics,current clinical procedures,treatment rationales and preferences.A general dentist and endodontist are included in study .simple questionnaire was distributed among 200 dentists,out of which 186 respondents participated in the study.They were inquired about the type of the treatment they preferred depending on the status of the pulp and peri radicular region of the tooth. And patient cooperation .In the last part participants were investigated about the reasons to choose multiple visits and single visit root canal therapy.Results :53.2% were male and 46.8% were female. Of these,78.5% had neither a master nor doctorate degree.Most of them have less than five years of specialist practice (99.5%.).general dentist (93% ) are attended questionnaire .others are 6.5% .multiple visit therapy is usually practiced by almost 60.0% of all dentist ,and they 80.1% responded multiple visit endodontics are more effective than the single visit endodontics .74.7 % dentist are used multiple visit endodontics for root canal treatments. Conclusion; It can be concluded that general dentist prefer multiple visit over single visit root canal treatment.