Conhecimento dos educadores físicos sobre a avulsão dentária.

Abstract

Tooth avulsion is characterized by the complete displacement of the tooth and its socket noteworthy for the lack of preparation of both the population and because of high incidence in sports accidents. Physical Education teachers occupy a privileged position in assistance for the victims, as they often are responsible for the first care given. This study aims to evaluate the Physical Educators' knowledge of the city of Patos – Paraíba, front tooth avulsion. This is an observational study, quantitative and analytical, which was conducted with physical education teachers of municipal schools and the academies instructors in the municipality. For data analysis was used descriptive statistics and bivariate inferential (chisquare test or Fisher's exact test). It was found higher prevalence of male (80.8%) among physical education professional, the majority (76.9%) had no experience with dental trauma and 86.5% could not define the term dental avulsion. When asked which conduct against a hypothetical case of avulsion, 51.9% said they would wash and keep the tooth and seek help and only 1.9% would wash the tooth and put back in its place on the mouth. When asked if they were redeploying the avulsed tooth, 69.2% would not reimplantation. Conclude that the physical education professional of Patos – Paraíba demonstrated insufficient knowledge of emergency procedures to be performed in cases of dental avulsion, as well as the necessary pipes in cases of dental replantation.