Awareness On Recent Advances in Gingival Retraction Materials During Impression Making Among Undergraduate Dental Students - A Questionnaire Survey

The aim of this survey was to create an awareness on recent advances in gingival retraction materials during impression making. A set of 10 questionnaires were circulated among the undergraduate (UG) students of Saveetha Dental College which was done in an online forum Survey planet to avoid discussion and false results, thereby no bias is evidenced in this study. A response of 100 UG students was collected and datas were entered to an Excel sheet followed by statistical analysis done in SPSS by IBM. The statistical test used is Chi-square test. From the survey we obtained that 66% of the students who attended the survey were third year students, 11% final years and 23% were CRRI. 80% of them were aware of recent advances in gingival retraction materials during impression making, 77% were aware of retraction cord, 76% were aware of the disadvantage of retraction cord, 78% were aware of the time consumption of retraction cord, 69% were aware of gingifoam, 70% were aware of Expasyl paste, 66% of were aware of Comprecap, 69% were aware of magic foam, 59% of them use Comprecap, 75% of them were aware of the expense of advanced materials. There was a significant association between the awareness of recent advances in the gingival retraction materials and year of study (p<0.05). The study concluded that UG students were aware of the recent advances in gingival retraction materials used in impression making which should be used in their daily clinical practice.