Knowledge About Cellular Regeneration - A Survey Among Undergraduate Dental Students

Abstract

Aim: The main aim of the study is to conduct a survey on knowledge and awareness about cellular regeneration among undergraduate dental students.
Background: Regeneration involves the capacity for renewal of tissues, organs or even organisms, after considerable physical injury or damage, resulting from pathologies, tumors, congenital diseases. As a sequence of tissue regeneration the properties of the new tissues are highly similar to the newly formed tissues.
Materials and Methods: The present cross sectional study was conducted among 102 random dental students in a Private dental college. An online e-questionnaire was prepared and the responses were collected and analysed by descriptive statistical analysis in SPSS software version 23.
Results: In the present study, responses of males were 68 and females were 34 and nearly 55% of the population were not aware of cellular regeneration and its techniques with the p value 0.074 which is not significant. The 1st year dental students have more knowledge on cellular regeneration than the other year students.
Conclusion: According to the results observed in this study, most of the dental students have adequate knowledge on cellular regeneration thus showing interest in the concerned subject. It would be a great change if the students get more opportunities to know the recent advances of cellular regeneration as well.