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Table 4 Knowledge about tooth handling, cleaning and transport media

From: Knowledge and attitude of emergency physician about the emergency management of tooth avulsion

Questions

Options

Frequency

Percent

If you decided to replant the tooth into its socket, but it has fallen onto the ground and is covered with dirt, what would you do?

Rinse tooth under running water

59

48.4

Gently wipe off the dirt that is stuck to the tooth by hand

4

3.3

Scrub the tooth gently with a toothbrush

2

1.6

Spray alcohol on the tooth

15

12.3

Put the tooth straight back into the socket, with no pretreatment

2

1.6

Don’t know

40

32.8

If you did not replant the tooth, How would you carry the tooth to the dentist?

Wrap in paper or gauze

26

21.3

Pack the tooth in ice

7

5.7

Put in water

10

8.2

Put in milk

38

31.1

Put in saline

26

21.3

Put in alcohol

3

2.5

Put in disinfecting solution

5

4.2

Hold the tooth in the child’s mouth

0

0

Missing

7

5.7

How to hold an avulsed tooth?

From the crown

63

51.6

From the root

2

1.6

Anywhere (crown or root)

11

9.1

Don’t know

46

37.7