Knowledge, attitude and prevelance of alginate storage among dental practitioners in Chennai

The survey is conducted to assess the knowledge, awareness and practice of alginate storage among the dental practitioners. The aim of the current study was to use representative survey data to examine in the knowledge, awareness and practice of alginate storage among dental practitioners which have different major. The study is a cross-sectional survey. A self-structured, pre-tested questionnaire was used for this survey. Total samples of 50 subjects were included in this study. The result of this study showed that the knowledge, awareness and practice of alginate storage among dental practitioners are quite high.(80%) Generally we can assume that most of the dental practitioners with prosthodontics background have greater awareness and knowledge on hypertension compared to other dental practitioners with different background studies. Moreover, still there is a few numbers of subjects that still do not aware on the proper condition and environment in storing the alginate. Therefore dental practitioners have to work on together in providing a good knowledge, awareness and practice of alginate storage that cannot be looked down. From the result collected, generally we can see that most of dental practitioners have great knowledge and awareness as they know the complications and significances of providing proper condition for alginate storage. Conclusion: Looking at current study results, they showed a large number of potent and incredible dental practitioners which are aware and have a good knowledge on alginate storage.