Conocimiento de los estudiantes de odontología de séptimo, octavo y noveno semestre de la Universidad Santo Tomás sobre el manejo de hemorragias bucales.

Abstract

Background: haemostasis is a physiological response from our body that leads to the formation of a clot to avoid blood loss from vascular injury and thus avoid bleeding. The oral cavity contains a large number of blood vessels that inside them have plasminogen activators, which makes this area more prone to bleeding. Haemophilia is one of the blood disorders that has an incorrect functioning in the formation of the clot because of a deficiency in the activity of coagulation factors VIII or IX that causes spontaneous bleeding. Objective: To determine the level of knowledge of dental students in the seventh, eighth and ninth semesters of the Universidad Santo Tomás on the management of oral bleeding. Methods: A descriptive observational cross-sectional study was carried out with the participation of 188 dental students from the Universidad Santo Tomás de Bucaramanga in which sociodemographic and knowledge variables were taken into account. The knowledge of the students was evaluated with 17 questions of general knowledge of bleeding and the outcomes were classified as low, medium and high. Results: The predominant level of knowledge was medium. 12% of the participants obtained a high level of knowledge. Questions specifically related to the management of oral bleeding were correctly answered by more than a half of the participants. Conclusion: The ninth semester students demonstrated to have the highest level of knowledge; while the majority of students in the seventh semester had a medium level of knowledge in a higher proportion than the other semesters.