2022 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 148-157
Abstract In recent years, oral implant treatment has become widespread, and so undergraduate students need to reliably acquire knowledge and skills. Matsumoto Dental University has been conducting implant placement training since 2017 in addition to oral implantology lectures. In the present study, we verified the effect of the training from a questionnaire survey of 82 fourth-year students in 2020.
The questionnaire consisted of six-level evaluation of six questions, “interest,” “understanding of implantology,” “difficulty,” “safety of implantation,” “future hopes,” and “understanding of the training,” as well as free-form questions. In this training, freehand implantation was performed in the lower right 5 and 7 equivalents of the jaw model under visible conditions. The results showed that “understanding of implantology” and “understanding of the training” increased significantly after the training, indicating that the training deepened understanding. In addition, “difficulty of implantation” decreased significantly and “safety” increased significantly, suggesting that the number of students who thought that implants were “not difficult” and “safe” increased through practical training. On the other hand, “interest” and “future hopes” maintained high scores, suggesting the potential interest and future hopes of students for oral implants. In addition, the free description included many positive opinions about the content.
Our students are highly interested in implants and have high hopes for the future, and this training appears to be effective in deepening their understanding. On the other hand, since this training is a part of clinical practice further enhancement of the training content assuming clinical practice is considered to be necessary in future.
