Awareness On the Usage of Various Air Filters Among Dental Students

Introduction: air filters are one of the recently employed preventive measures in dental clinics to reduce the infectious spread of the pandemic outbreak covid19 through aerosol generated during dental procedures.the current study focuses on analysing the importance of air filters among dental population. Materials and method: an online survey was conducted with a self structured questionnaire comprising 10 questions.the questionnaire was designed using the online survey platform google forms and the link was circulated through the social networking platforms to the participants. The results were analysed and with the collected responses a descriptive statistical test was performed using the statistical software “spss version 20” and the result was represented in the pie chart form. Results: the current study results depicts clearly that around 99% of the participants are aware about the importance of air filters and among them around 97.6% of them possess the facility of air filters in their clinic among them around 76% believe hepa filters to be effective among the available air filters.the association test performed in the study clearly depicts that the results obtained were statistically significant because of the p value less than the standard 0.05. Conclusion: the present survey study within the limitations concludes that most of the respondents are aware about the importance of air filters installation in dental clinics particularly during this pandemic outbreak time to reduce the transmission rate of covid19 infections through the aerosol generated.